[debian-mysql] Bug#1057708: mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2: It looks like mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2 should have a strong version depencene on mariadb-server

[Nicolai Langfeldt]

Package: mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2
Version: 1:10.11.4-1~deb12u1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

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   * On our riggs mariadb-server and mariadb-server-core are placed on
     hold to avoid unintended updates and restarts.
   * I was preparing a particular server for production and ran
     dist-upgrade on it.  This upgraded all the
     mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip and other compression packages.
   * When mariadb restarted it did not recognize any of the plugins
     and it stopped at the config files for each one.  I had to
     comment out the plugin loading to get the mariadb up and evaluate
     the situation. This worked.
   * dpkg.log showed that the mariadb-plugin-provider packages had been
   * upgraded.
     ineffective)?
   * I removed the hold on the mariadb server packages, replaced the
     compression config files with the original ones and dist-upgraded.
     Now the database started as expected

   * My tentative conclusion is that the mariadb-plugin-provider
     compression packages have a very tight version dependency on the
     server packages and that they should only be upgraded in concert
     with the server packages, with matching versions.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2 depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0      1.0.8-5+b1
ii  mariadb-server  1:10.11.4-1~deb12u1

mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2 recommends no packages.

mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2 suggests no packages.

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