Re: Request for advice on mariadb-10.5 migration schedule

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

On Sun, 2020-11-22 at 16:48 +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> > If you want to keep src:mariadb-10.3 around, one or the other. Or
> > you could upload a new version of mariadb-10.3 which drops the
> > package.
> 
> Ok, I will upload a new 10.3. I want it to stay around for a bit more
> until the transition of 10.5 is fully completed and verified to
> replace 10.3 in full. Testing in unstable alone has not given 10.5
> enough exposure yet, as there have been very few bug reports.

I see there's a mariadb-10.3 update in experimental (for 10.3.27).
Based on the above, I assume that an upload to unstable is also
planned?

mariadb-10.3 is one of the packages that I was looking at in relation
to the upcoming stable point release (in a week and a bit's time),
because the versions currently look like:

mariadb-10.3 | 1:10.3.23-0+deb10u1 | stable                 | source
mariadb-10.3 | 1:10.3.24-2         | testing                | source
mariadb-10.3 | 1:10.3.24-2         | unstable               | source
mariadb-10.3 | 1:10.3.25-0+deb10u1 | proposed-updates       | source

so, without a new unstable upload, we either have to not include the
mariadb-10.3 DSA packages in the point release, or copy them to testing
and unstable beforehand. Not having to do either of those would be
preferable from the SRM perspective, and I assume also from the
maintainer perspective.

Regards,

Adam