Control: severity -1 important That’s not a grave bug. Please do not abuse severities.
Ondřej -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> > On 6 Oct 2018, at 01:23, Piotr Jurkiewicz <piotr.jerzy.jurkiew...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Package: php7.3-mysql > Version: 7.3.0~rc2-2 > Severity: grave > > After update to 7.3.0~rc2-2 (sid), mysqli extension stopped working. It can't > connect to MySQL server, giving the following error message: > > PHP message: PHP Warning: mysqli::__construct(): The server requested > authentication method unknown to the client [caching_sha2_password] > > It worked before the update (version 7.3.0~alpha3-1, I think). > > caching_sha2_password is the default authentication method in MySQL 8.0. >