[debian-mysql] Bug#988089: Bug#988089: Bug#988089: mariadb-server: MariaDB uninstalled on dist-upgrade Debian 10 -> 11

[Otto Kekäläinen]

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 4:50 AM Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Not directly related, but:
> Should Galera be a Depends of MariaDB? Wouldn't a Recommends or even
> just a Suggests be good enough?

Maybe. Only a part of users run Galera. Feel free to do this
suggestion in a for or a Merge Request. Running the CI as part of the
Merge Request will also help you discover potential regressions of
this change.

I am not sure we have any Galera tests in our
mysql-test-run/autopkgtests or in the Salsa-CI pipeline. Probably not,
as it would require running several mariadbd instances and testing the
communication between them.

Upstream does have some automatic Galera testing in their pipeline:
http://buildbot.askmonty.org/buildbot/grid?branch=10.5&category=main&category=experimental

At the moment the Galera packaging in Debian inherits form what it was
in upstream when in MariaDB 10.1 the Galera code was merged into the
main server and became a standard feature.

I am keeping a close eye on all Merge Requests at
https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team and I promise to review anything
you send within 24 hours now so we can get the final improvements into
Bullseye.

- Otto