[debian-mysql] Bug#1003839: Bug#1000342: bullseye-pu: package mariadb-10.5 10.5.13-0+deb11u1

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hi!

> Yes, please fix the situation in unstable/testing. It looks like 10.6
> isn't migrating because your reverse depends need fixing first (did you
> report that to the maintainers?); having 10.6 migrate would ease the
> situation a bit because then we can just remove 10.5. I think it would

Waiting for Ruby library to have a new release, but no idea how long
it will take. I will wait a few weeks and if there is no progress I
will request an autopkgtest override from the release team.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1002087
https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2/issues/1179#issuecomment-1013950778

> be good if you stop building the non-versioned packages from the
> versioned source package (like most ecosystems do) and build those in a
> separate package (mariadb-defaults or sum such).

It is too much work to deviate from upstream on such a thing. The good
news is that upstream plans to do this, so we will inherit it in next
major release that lands in Debian.

https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/1973