This is still waiting for input from Akonadi maintainers: On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 at 23:44, Otto Kekäläinen <o...@debian.org> wrote: > > (Adding akonadi-backend-mysql maintainers as recipients) > > Hi! > > When MariaDB Server upgrades, it could trigger a restart in > akonadi-backend-mysql, or the maintainer scripts could directly stop > the akonadi-backend-mysql. I am open to any solution here. > > The main question is: what are the expectations from Akonadi on > MariaDB upgrades? > > If MariaDB completely ignores Akonadi, you might run into problems > because Akonadi/mysqld did not have a clean shutdown on MariaDB 10.5 > and then MariaDB 10.11 will fail to start because crash recovery > across major versions. Before going into major version upgrade the old > server needs to be stopped gracefully with for example `pkill mysqld` > (or a more elaborate version matching other binary names and checking > for process owning user etc). If MariaDB stops the server something > needs to exist to restart it. > > Merge Requests on Salsa against > https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/mariadb-server.preinst#L27-47 > are welcome!
And side note: the libmariadb3 issue was reported in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031773, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031863 and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031860 and forwarded upstream in https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-discuss/msg06508.html