[debian-mysql] Bug#1151958: mariadb breaks mediawiki autopkgtest: Cannot access the database

[Paul Gevers]

Source: mariadb, mediawiki
Control: found -1 mariadb/1:11.8.9+ds-4
Control: found -1 mediawiki/1:1.43.11+dfsg-1
Severity: serious
Tags: sid forky
User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Usertags: breaks needs-update

Dear maintainer(s),

With a recent upload of mariadb the autopkgtest of mediawiki fails in 
testing when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages of mariadb 
from unstable. It passes when run with only packages from testing. In 
tabular form:

                        pass            fail
mariadb                from testing    1:11.8.9+ds-4
mediawiki              from testing    1:1.43.11+dfsg-1
all others             from testing    from testing

I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report.

Currently this regression is blocking the migration of mariadb to 
testing [1]. Due to the nature of this issue, I filed this bug report 
against both packages. Can you please investigate the situation and 
reassign the bug to the right package?

More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be found on
https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation

Paul

[1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=mariadb

https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/m/mediawiki/77031534/log.gz

865s PHP 8.4.26 is installed.
865s ICU 78.3 is installed (supports Unicode 17.0.0).
865s Warning: Could not find APCu. Object caching is not enabled.
865s Could not find GD library or ImageMagick. Image thumbnailing will 
be disabled.
865s Git version control software not found. You can ignore this for 
now. Note Special:Version will not display commit hashes.
865s Using server name "http://localhost".
865s Using server URL "http://localhost/mediawiki".
865s Warning: Your default directory for uploads 
(/usr/share/mediawiki/images/) is not checked for vulnerability to 
arbitrary script execution during the CLI install.
865s Warning: Requests for images in your uploads directory should 
answer with the HTTP header X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to protect 
browsers from potentially unsafe files. It is highly recommended to 
configure appropriate response headers on your webserver before enabling 
uploads.
865s The environment has been checked. You can install MediaWiki.
865s Setting up database
865s Cannot access the database: :real_connect(): (HY000/2002): No such 
file or directory. Check the host, username and password and try again. 
If using "localhost" as the database host, try using "127.0.0.1" instead 
(or vice versa).
865s ***failed***
866s autopkgtest [13:38:51]: test install-mysql