> > Bookworm has a different major version than Trixie, so there is no > > gain in waiting for Trixie version (MariaDB 11.10 vs 11.8). > > That's not entirely correct. > > One of the reasons for wanting fixes to land in higher suites before > stable is to avoid the risk of upgrade regressions. If stable receives > a fix first, then users upgrading to testing afterwards would become > vulnerable to the fixed issues again.
Normally yes, but considering that the unstable version is a whole new major version this line of thinking is not relevant for this scenario at all. Anyway, 11.8.2 is in unstable now (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mariadb). Everything built successfully in unstable, so this 10.11.x is much less likely to have any build issues anymore so testing it is no longer important. You can promote it now or closer to the next Bookworm point release.
