[debian-mysql] Bug#1030604: mariadb breaks mariadb-10.6 autopkgtest: Variable 'innodb_compression_algorithm' can't be set to the value of 'lz4'

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hi!

The error message "Variable 'innodb_compression_algorithm' can't be
set to the value of 'lz4'" is from the first test, and it fails.
Actually all tests fail because in MariaDB 10.11 the compression
methods are packaged in separate packages.

The root cause here is that the test in 10.6 depends on simply
'mariadb-server'. With a new 'mariadb-server' from 10.11 the test of
10.6 will fail. The test would not fail if the autopkgtests originally
had a dependency on 'mariadb-server-10.6'.

It does not seem worth the effort to upload a new src:mariadb-10.6
just to fix this. It is a pure test issue and not a symptom of a real
failure.

Can we have a temporary override to shut down the src:mariadb-10.6
autopkgtests in Debian CI so that 10.11 can enter Debian
testing/Bookworm and I can then file request to remove
src:mariadb-10.6 from testing and unstable?