Hello! > >> During the 10.5 packaging cycle I have tested building backports for > >> every commit (see e.g. > >> https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.5/-/pipelines/191851). > >> The galera-4 dependency is already available in > >> stretch-backports-sloppy. If you are interested in backports, that > >> could be a viable option. > > > > how compatible are 10.1 and 10.5? > > buster has 10.3, so if anything, we should upgrade to 10.3. However that's a > major upgrade, so before doing that, we should consider carefully consider > whether we can get 10.1 supported for longer (perhaps with some upstream > help).
I could spend a bit of time testing a mariadb-10.3 backport from Buster to Stretch, but in order to do it, can you help me elsewhere? Currently my time is eaten up by mariadb-10.5 which I have not been able to get from unstable -> testing yet due to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972564 - Otto
