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

[Jing Luo]

Control: severity -1 minor

On Thu, 07 Dec 2023 12:56:57 +0100 Nicolai Langfeldt 
<niclangf at vgnett.no> wrote:
> Package: mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2
> Version: 1:10.11.4-1~deb12u1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * On our riggs mariadb-server and mariadb-server-core are placed on
>      hold to avoid unintended updates and restarts.

OK, you should know that marking mariadb-server on hold also prevents it 
from getting stable updates and security updates, which don't happen 
frequently. An easy work around is to also mark 
mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2 and whatever plugins you have on hold, or 
just upgrade all of them.

[...]

>    * 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.

We could make plugins Depends: mariadb-server-core (= ${binray:Version}).

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Jing Luo
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