>> > I think that he is saying that there should be at at least 1 LTS version of >> > MariaDB available for the current Debian release. >> >> Which is the case, 11.8 is LTS and is available in Debian 13 >> repositories and Debian 12 has 10.11 which is also LTS.
Debian has only one MariaDB version at a time. Debian intentionally does not offer multiple versions of the same software in a single release. For example if you want to use Gnome or KDE in Debian, you will be using the specific version selected for that Debian (or Ubuntu) release. If you want to stay on an older release, you will need to pick the whole older stack and run an older Debian or Ubuntu release. If you want to run an older OS but bleeding edge MariaDB, you can choose e.g. for Debian 13 between 11.8, 12.2 and 12.3 at https://mariadb.org/download/. If you want to have an older MariaDB version on a newer OS version, there is a bunch of work involved to make sure that compatibility with the latest library versions is backported to the older MariaDB version. For example Debian 13 "Trixie" has GCC 14. You can't assume any older code written before GCC 14 was released is compatible with GCC 14. I haven't checked, but it might be that your Linux distro vendor partner has some offerings for these situations, or you could reach out to MariaDB.com and see if they offer custom backported versions for your need. If you bypass the backporting work by using containers, you will end up running a say Debian 12 container with MariaDB 10.11 on a Debian 13 host and you won't have a real backported version. - Otto _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
