libdbd-mariadb-perl is not part of jammy

[Jochen Schüttler]

I use mariadb-server and mysqlreport for that, depending on libdbd-mariadb-perl. That package was dropped from impish to jammy, so mysqlreport is not working any more. There was a bug inside libdbd-mariadb-perl, that is now fixed:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1002093

Please include the updated version of libdbd-mariadb-perl into jammy.

[Jochen Schüttler (jjworx)]

I tried downloading the source file via deb-src and compiling libdbd-mariadb-perl on my own. In the course of installing missing dependencies I accidentally installed mysql alongside mariadb and Froze both installations. It turned out my incremental backups were not working because mariabackup happily produced them after upgrade from 10.3.x to 10.6.7, but they were uncompatible during prepare phase.

After 2 days I got my system working again, but mysqlreport is still unavailable. I guess you can understand I'm not happy nobody decided on my bug report yet.

I don't understand why the deb-src source files for libdbd-mariadb-perl need mysql rather than mariadb.

I contacted the developer Gregor Herrmann from the linked bug report, but he couldn't help me after some point, because the Ubuntu version of the source files differs from the Debian version he is supporting. Who supports the Ubuntu version of libdbd-mariadb-perl?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Tuukka Pasanen (pasanen-tuukka)]

Debian Salsa merge request: https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/14

[Nathan Wallach (taniwallach)]

It seems that the problem is that the builds are failing due to test failures which were fixed in the source repository, and then in the Debian package.

See: https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-MariaDB/issues/164
and: https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-MariaDB/issues/167

Given that DBD::MariaDB is more reliable for UTF-8 handling than DBD::mysql, getting this package to build on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) would be very nice.

[Guillaume (e1msih)]

I have the same issue (ubuntu 22 connecting to MySQL 5.0.95), and i would like to have DBD::MariaDB for amd64 available, please.

[Nathan Wallach (taniwallach)]

The current workaround is to install via CPAN.