Hi! I am not sure that I understand fully the issue here but here are some comments.
MariaDB version that is shipped in Debian is a different build/package that the one that MariaDB Foundation provide. Respectively in https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server and https://buildbot.mariadb.org (https://github.com/mariadb/server). Debian has always shipped only one MariaDB version. You could probably install previous version or future version by changing your source.list configuration in Debian but that's probably not a good idea. If you wish to use another MariaDB version that does not come with Debian official repositories, you can use the one that are provided by MariaDB Foundation (https://mariadb.org/download/?t=repo-config). And finally if you want to use a version that is not packaged anymore, you can find everything that was released by the Foundation on https://archive.mariadb.org. Hope that helps! William Edwards via discuss <[email protected]>, 26/03/2026 – 10:15:09 (+0100): > > Op 26 mrt 2026 om 10:07 heeft Gordan Bobic via discuss > <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven: > > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2026, 07:22 Guillaume Lefranc via discuss, <[1] > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I am writing this to share a concern regarding the Debian MariaDB > repos. Nowadays if you install the latest Debian LTS (trixie/13), the > only option is 11.8, which was released less than 1 year ago! > I do understand that it takes time and space to maintain more than 3 > versions but honestly with the new release cycles being closer, we end > up in some ridiculous situation where a user running 11.4 cannot > update > their operating system. 11.4 is only two years old, not everyone wants > to upgrade for several reasons. Since the mariadb LTS cycle is 5 years > it would make more sense if a version was packaged for the last Debian > LTS which is 5 years as well. I know we can still work around that by > running it in Docker but again, not everyone wants to. Thanks for > listening to me. > > > > What version does Trixie ship with in its own repositories? > > > 11.8. I don’t see the problem; if you need an older MariaDB, why not just use > an older Debian? > > > From what I recall the policy has always been to provide only builds of > versions >= than the ones that the distro ships with, and this has been > the > case accross all supported distros, both rpm and deb based ones. > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > References: > > [1] mailto:[email protected] > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] -- Faustin Lammler MariaDB Foundation GPG: F652 BCD1 1AA8 8975 F010 48A5 390A 2F27 832A 5C79
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