Is anyone using MariaDB for Django on CentOS

[Bill Freeman]

I'm having trouble installing mysql-python because the MariaDB installed libmysqlclient_r.a is "incompatible" (missing dependencies according to http://data-matters.blogspot.com/2013/08/install-mysql-python-with-mariadb.html).  There is rumored to be a fixed package for deb based systems, but neither yum nor googling finds an RPM for CentOS 6.

Has anyone gotten past this?  (My google-fu is apparently inadequate.)

Bill