Hi, > As long as https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/05/msg00256.html > is not sufficiently answered, I will wait with making any changes.
I need the help of maintainers to research this for each individual packages. Some upstreams like WordPress, Nextcloud, Drupal were clearly state in their documentation that they recommend MariaDB. This implies they are less likely to rewrite stuff to adapt to new MySQL versions that drop functionality. This already happened in WordPress, which was (and perhaps still is) incompatible with MySQL 8.4 because it dropped the SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS feature. Quickly skimming rsyslog documentation and source I see that it mentions "MariaDB/MySQL" everywhere. I am not sure if MariaDB being mentioned first has significance in this context. I tried to read what the rsyslog CI does, but the mix of GitHub actions and custom Buildbot made it difficult to determine which MySQL and MariaDB versions they are testing. Note that I filed this issue with severity "normal", so immediate changes aren't required. You can wait and see what your upstream does and make the change later in the Forky development cycle.
