Hello! I kindly ask assistance from the Debian release team what to do about MariaDB 10.5.
I have been working on MariaDB 10.5 packaging since August[1] and I've had it in unstable since early September[2]. It is currently however stuck on two migration excuses: 1) Builds on armhf stopped working earlier this month due to compiler bug #972564, perhaps in cmake or gcc. Upstream gcc has confirmed at least one issue. There is no schedule on when it will be fixed and there is nothing to my knowledge that I could reasonably do about this. 2) autopkgtest for mariadb-10.3/1:10.3.24-2 fail on i386 (and armhf when it build earlier this month). The test is installing "mariadb-server" which in unstable pulls in mariadb-10.5. I silenced this false positive (or indifferent failure of access denied vs password invalid) for mariadb-10.5 but I cannot upload a new mariadb-10.3 with autopkgtest fixes anymore. What is your take on the situation? Could you override the excuses to make mariadb-10.5 migrate into testing? I would like to have mariadb-10.5 in bullseye and any remnants of mariadb-10.3 (and even older) removed from unstable/testing, but this migration process is now stalled on this, and I am afraid that if I don't push it, there would not be a safe margin of time to get more testing feedback and weed out any other potential issues in testing/bullseye. In terms of general software/packaging quality, MariaDB 10.5 currently builds and test suite passes on more platforms[3] than any MariaDB version ever before has, and my own Salsa-CI pipeline[4] is more extensive than anything we've had in MariaDB packaging in Debian ever before. In my opinion the quality is very good and the package deserves to go into testing despite these two issues. - Otto [1] https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.5/-/commit/c99c692c6400cd1e47af85e4b102a2b67f5c3594 [2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mariadb-10.5 [3] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=mariadb-10.5 [4] https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.5/-/pipelines/190964
