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Branch: debian/latest
Path: debian/changelog
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Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server
Last scan: 2026-01-14 05:00:03+00
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Debian changelog in Git:

mariadb (1:11.8.5-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Otto Kekäläinen ]
  * Add tentative upstream patch to fix amd64v3 build issues (MDEV-38398)
  * Drop redundant `Priority: optional`
  * Update Debian copyright for 2026
  * Bump Debian Policy version

  [ Aquila Macedo ]
  * Drop obsolete library-not-linked-against-libc overrides
  * Ship upstream sysusers.d mariadb.conf in mariadb-server (Closes: #1028271)
  * Add patch sysusers-lock-mysql-account.patch
  * Create mysql via sysusers in postinst, drop preinst adduser handling
  * Drop adduser pre-depends, depend on systemd-sysusers provider
  * Clarify NIS/YP debconf note for sysusers mysql account creation
  * Update all translations to match updated template

 -- Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>  Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:03:57 +0000

This branch is 16 commits ahead of tag debian/1%11.8.5-3

Git log:

commit 195537a39981c5e5f33e94b52b5db63585dfe682
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 13 11:04:32 2026 -0800

    Update changelog for 1:11.8.5-4 release

commit fddc1e5b1f4bfd440b7b3daab3f74bd3b1af809b
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 13 11:03:42 2026 -0800

    Bump Debian Policy version
    
    Based on
    https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html no
    further changes are needed.

commit 1ecfe06b32c16266ee79ba62514b9326f357a839
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 13 11:03:21 2026 -0800

    Update Debian copyright for 2026
    
    Fixes Lintian nag:
    
        update-debian-copyright 2025 vs 2026 [debian/copyright]

commit bf585921b19244d66a602bec04055290fe1c08dd
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 13 11:01:40 2026 -0800

    Drop redundant `Priority: optional`
    
    As of dpkg version 1.22.13, this field is set to "optional" by default.
    As such, in this case the Priority field is redundant and should be
    removed.

commit af8e194c888a2423f212f3b70107baf9d929c216
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 13 12:27:16 2026 -0800

    Update all translations to match new strings in template
    
    Done with the help of Aider.chat and MoonshotAI open-weights Kimi K2 LLM
    using command:
    
        for FILE in po/*.po
        do
          aider --no-auto-commits --message \
            "You are a translator. Ensure all strings are translated and \
            no fuzzy translations remain. Honor existing conventions, such \
            as line wrapping, when adding new lines. If everything is \
            already translated and seems correct and complete, do not do \
            anything." \
            $FILE
        done

commit d8a33dad3d6a632b4e3135e6f1f855c4d9f2f554
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 13 12:00:23 2026 -0800

    Update translation template to match changes in 4c2c41a8
    
    Done with `debconf-updatepo --verbose`.
    
    Also improve the wording in English a bit and update the
    `#flag:translate!` that was missed in 4c2c41a8 so that only the last
    line of the template is skipped from translations.

commit 4c2c41a858e9d20543510a6b6661178968ecc552
Author: Aquila Macedo <aquilamacedo@riseup.net>
Date:   Fri Jan 9 18:10:53 2026 -0300

    Clarify NIS/YP debconf note for sysusers mysql account creation
    
    Update the NIS/YP warning to reflect that systemd-sysusers edits
    /etc/passwd and /etc/group and does not create users in NIS/LDAP, so
    admins should ensure mysql is provided via NSS and matches local policy.

commit e3de9956283e351cb739d7b81cf4b59f1ba6fa0b
Author: Aquila Macedo <aquilamacedo@riseup.net>
Date:   Fri Jan 9 18:03:12 2026 -0300

    Drop adduser pre-depends, depend on systemd-sysusers provider
    
    mariadb-server no longer uses adduser/addgroup in maintscripts, so drop
    the adduser Pre-Depends and add an alternative Depends on a package
    providing /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers.

commit c95b3d27df4aeaca8e24c408e50fe779fdfe958a
Author: Aquila Macedo <aquilamacedo@riseup.net>
Date:   Thu Jan 8 22:42:36 2026 -0300

    Create mysql via sysusers in postinst, drop preinst adduser handling
    
    Stop creating the mysql system user/group in mariadb-server.preinst via
    adduser/addgroup, and drop the related preinst ownership fixups.
    
    Make sysusers the single source of truth for mysql account creation.
    This avoids maintaining two competing code paths, ensures
    /etc/sysusers.d overrides are respected, and lets us drop the
    Pre-Depends on adduser.
    
    Ensure the account exists in mariadb-server.postinst by applying the
    shipped sysusers fragment with systemd-sysusers (honoring DPKG_ROOT)
    before any (id -u mysql) checks, ownership changes, or
    (mariadb-install-db --user=mysql) runs. Also remove the unnecessary sudo
    usage and restore the datadir group ownership fixup (chgrp mysql) with
    safer quoting and precedence.

commit f60417cfb628c7a42549c7cad8f944ce2c1e792c
Author: Aquila Macedo <aquilamacedo@riseup.net>
Date:   Thu Jan 8 21:43:42 2026 -0300

    Add patch sysusers-lock-mysql-account.patch
    
    Adjusts the generated mariadb.conf sysusers fragment to match Debian's
    long-standing mysql account properties.
    
    Use u! to create a fully locked system account and set the home
    directory to /nonexistent with /bin/false as the shell, instead of using
    the datadir as the account home.

commit 4a46631b4a6e418ba1ca52281021c446c3b6dd27
Author: Aquila Macedo <aquilamacedo@riseup.net>
Date:   Tue Dec 23 20:20:32 2025 -0500

    Ship upstream sysusers.d mariadb.conf in mariadb-server
    
    Install the upstream-generated sysusers fragment
    /usr/lib/sysusers.d/mariadb.conf in the mariadb-server package and drop
    it from debian/not-installed.
    
    This makes the sysusers configuration available for systemd-sysusers and
    local admin overrides via /etc/sysusers.d/.
    
    Closes: #1028271

commit 3f57d51ab12102a1a4e25f63b263c43db41caaef
Author: Aquila Macedo <aquilamacedo@riseup.net>
Date:   Sat Jan 10 15:14:02 2026 -0300

    Drop obsolete library-not-linked-against-libc overrides
    
    Lintian 2.128.1 removed the library-not-linked-against-libc check, so
    keeping these overrides triggers alien-tag errors.
    
    Remove the provider-specific *.lintian-overrides files that existed only
    for this tag, and drop the remaining library-not-linked-against-libc
    entries from mariadb-server and mariadb-test overrides.
    
    Ref: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/02ee7f48e629bc5db2594376adbb57674eca0d5c

commit 2bb18a8cf1170b7c506b9c57640d8798a3b74298
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Jan 2 17:27:44 2026 -0800

    Salsa CI: Remove failing 'mariadb-10.3 and Buster upgrade' job
    
    The job 'mariadb-10.3 and Buster upgrade' was passing on December 23rd,
    2025, but was failing on a run a week later. The error log ends with apt
    nagging about unmet dependencies, as libedit2:amd64 depends libc6 version
    2.42 or newer, which can't be installed due to the usrmerge workarounds
    that force the libc version to be help 2.38 on Buster upgrades.
    
    Instead of sinking effort in evolving the workaround, simply disable the
    job as it failing is clearly not a sign of anything regressing in the
    MariaDB packaging and keepign tests for upgrading from Buster has very low
    value now that it is the release is long deprecated.

commit 79863d61bdbe48d55589da9ca4d700b0a9680a2b
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Dec 22 15:05:43 2025 -0800

    Add tentative upstream patch to fix amd64v3 build issues (MDEV-38398)
    
    Also disable two tests that failed on Launchpad.net to ensure builds and
    the 'main' test suite in mariadb-test-run pass and migrations from
    Ubuntu resolute-proposed to resolute don't get obstructed in vain on
    tiny issues.
    
    Note that `DEB_HOST_ARCH` on `amd64v3` is still `amd64`.

commit d966b97b757fc02234179e85dcbd8f892f31f21e
Author: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Dec 22 15:04:22 2025 -0800

    Open new changelog entry

commit c2af0e3428c4eff98ee919a7b821b8fd13857473
Author: Aquila Macedo <aquilamacedo@riseup.net>
Date:   Thu Dec 18 19:10:35 2025 -0500

    Handle missing /etc/mysql/debian.cnf
    
    /etc/mysql/debian.cnf is a legacy credentials file from old
    installations and is not present on new installs. Do not hardcode
    --defaults-file or --defaults-extra-file pointing to it.
    
    Only pass the option when /etc/mysql/debian.cnf is readable, so service
    restarts and admin/upgrade commands do not fail when the file is absent.
    
    Closes: #1056120