Status with latest version in Bookworm: $ dpkg -l | grep libmariadb-dev-compat ii libmariadb-dev-compat:amd64 1:10.11.2-1
$ mysql_config --version 10.11.2 $ mariadb-config --version 10.11.2 $ grep ^Version /usr/lib/*/pkgconfig/libmariadb.pc Version: 3.3.4 $ find /usr/lib/*/pkgconfig/m*.pc -ls pkgconfig/mariadb.pc -> libmariadb.pc pkgconfig/mysqlclient.pc -> libmariadb.pc Status in Docker image debian:buster-20230109 $ dpkg -l | grep libmariadb-dev-compat ii libmariadb-dev-compat:amd64 1:10.3.36-0+deb10u2 $ mysql_config --version 10.3.36 $ mariadb-config --version bash: mariadb-config: command not found $ grep ^Version /usr/lib/*/pkgconfig/libmariadb.pc Version: 3.1.18 $ find /usr/lib/*/pkgconfig/m*.pc -ls pkgconfig/mariadb.pc pkgconfig/mysqlclient.pc -> mariadb.pc I have no idea why this is so but agree that mariadb-config not being same version as mariadb.pc is confusing. Related upstream PRs that do not fix this but are on the same topic: - https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-c/pull/219 "Return correct client library version number" - https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/1800 "MDEV-23538: Rename mariadb.pc to libmariadbd.pc to avoid confusion"
