Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal I am the maintainer of the MariaDB packages in Debian and Ubuntu. The package mariadb-10.2 was uploaded in November 2017 by another Debian Developer helping in the effort, but he did not commit to maintain it.
i personally want to focus my efforts on packaging of mariadb-10.3, which will obsolete mariadb-10.2 very soon. In the mean time I plan to make (security) updates only for 10.1. Therefore I request the removal of mariadb-10.2 from unstable at this point. I do not have enough time to fix issues caused by this -10.2 package, nor provide updates to -10.2. The source package mariadb-10.2 produces the following binary packages, which have no replacement from other MariaDB packages: mariadb-client-10.2 mariadb-client-core-10.2 mariadb-plugin-connect-10.2 mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check-10.2 mariadb-plugin-gssapi-client-10.2 mariadb-plugin-gssapi-server-10.2 mariadb-plugin-mroonga-10.2 mariadb-plugin-oqgraph-10.2 mariadb-plugin-rocksdb-10.2 mariadb-plugin-spider-10.2 mariadb-plugin-tokudb-10.2 mariadb-server-10.2 mariadb-server-core-10.2 libmariadbd19 Please make sure these binary packages are removed so there is no cruft left over. All other binary packages have a replacement from the other MariaDB server and connector packages. Thank you!
