[debian-mysql] Bug#1109499: bacula-director-sqlite3: fails to dist-upgrade from bookworm to trixie

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 12:44:21PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
>...
> The situation for MariaDB warranted documentation in the Release Notes:
> 
> https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.html#mariadb-major-version-upgrades-only-work-reliably-after-a-clean-shutdown
> 
> Maybe we can reduce the amount of people running into the scenario where
> this is needed by giving sound upgrade instructions?
>...

I would dispute that what you linked for MariaDB is a sound upgrade instruction.

If the user followed this instruction, and if during the upgrade 
bacula-director-mysql ends up getting configured before mariadb-server,
then the postinst of bacula-director will try to upgrade its schema
in a database that is not running.

> Paul

cu
Adrian