Re: mariadb-10.1 fails to propagate to testing

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Sun, 2017-11-26 at 16:22 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> mariadb-10.1 1:10.1.29-6 seems to be stuck in sid. It does not
> propagate to testing although
> https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=mariadb-10.1 lists it as
> valid candidate.
> 
> Could you please check the cause?

There's a bit of backstory, but effectively: the mariadb-test binary
package in testing is built from the mariadb-10.1 source package, and
has strictly versioned dependencies on other binaries built from that
source package. In unstable, the mariadb-10.2 source package builds the
binary package instead, but FTBFS on several architectures so is not a
candidate. The net result is that when britney tries to migrate mariadb
-10.1 1:10.1.29-6, the mariadb-test binary package in testing becomes
uninstallable, and the migration attempt is aborted.

Regards,

Adam