[debian-mysql] Heads up to release team about MariadB 10.3

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Hi Otto,

On 06/01/2019 16:08, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I just realized that the upload of mariadb-10.3 into Debian includes
> the following transitions:
> - libmariadbd18 -> libmariadbd19
> - libmariadbclient18 becomes deprecated and fully replaced by the
> libmariadb3 library already in Debian for a longer time (source
> package mariadb-connector-c)

Someone created https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/mysql-default.html
to track this.

> Technically this can constitute a transition and I have not followed
> the process desrcibed at:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions
> 
> My priority has been in packaging mariadb-10.3 so we would not be
> stuck with mariadb-10.1 in buster. It is a very large package and this
> transition was just a smal part of it, and I realized it too late.
> 
> My focus was mostly on if I manage to pull this off at all in time,
> and I overlooked planning this transition detail. Sorry!
> 
> Luckily there has not been any major problems so far. The Salsa-CI,
> ci.debian.net etc are all looking good. There is maybe just one issue
> that can be hard to tackle, details in
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917303

https://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mariadb-10.3.html points to an autopkgtest
failure on pam-mysql too, though that one doesn't seem to have a corresponding
bug report yet.

Cheers,
Emilio