[debian-mysql] New MariaDB 10.5 and 10.3 for Debian and Ubuntu pending

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Otto,

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 08:00:12PM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> There are no entries at https://release.debian.org/ about the next
> stable update dates. If it won't happen until October, there might be
> new MariaDB updates available by then, so I am not sure if I want to
> put in potentially unnecessary work into preparing updates in vain.
> 
> I did a stable update request for 10.3.30 in July and later updated it
> to 10.3.31 in August but no response from stable update maintainers so
> far: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=991221
> 
> If you want to have 10.3.31 and 10.5.12 as security updates, I can
> prepare them in a couple of days for you.

Why do you think they would be in "vain"/moot? The update would be
available in the respective proposed updates suites and include in the
point release. Even if you would need to followup another update, in
the time inbetween the work is not lost but actually already exposed
for those testing from the proposed-updates.

If there would then be more releases on top, these can be followed up
as well without invalidating the previous done work.

But maybe I'm missunderstanding? Can you elaborate what is your
concern in putting version in the repositories proposed-updates for an
upcoming point release before knowing the release date?

Regards,
Salvatore