[debian-mysql] Bug#1056395: mariadb-server: debian.cnf [mysql_upgrade] basedir option ignored

[rpnpif]

Package: mariadb-server
Version: 1:10.11.4-1~deb12u1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

I think that the archived bug #947553 is not fixed.

# systemctl start mariadb.service
starts MariaDB just fine, but generates a log message:
    /etc/mysql/debian-start[nnnnn]: /usr/bin/mysql_upgrade: \
	the '--basedir' option is always ignored

The automatically generated /etc/mysql/debian.cnf includes:
	[mysql_upgrade]
	...
	basedir  = /usr

However, mysql_upgrade(1) says:
	--basedir=path
	Old option accepted for backward compatibility but ignored.

This issue is still present in 10.11.5-3 release from SID.

Regards.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.2
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages mariadb-server depends on:
ii  adduser                3.134
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.82
ii  galera-4               26.4.13-1
ii  gawk                   1:5.2.1-2
ii  iproute2               6.1.0-3
ii  libc6                  2.36-9+deb12u3
ii  libdbi-perl            1.643-4
ii  libpam0g               1.5.2-6+deb12u1
ii  libssl3                3.0.11-1~deb12u2
ii  libstdc++6             12.2.0-14
ii  lsof                   4.95.0-1
ii  mariadb-client         1:10.11.4-1~deb12u1
ii  mariadb-common         1:10.11.4-1~deb12u1
ii  mariadb-server-core    1:10.11.4-1~deb12u1
ii  passwd                 1:4.13+dfsg1-1+b1
ii  perl                   5.36.0-7
ii  procps                 2:4.0.2-3
ii  psmisc                 23.6-1
ii  rsync                  3.2.7-1
ii  socat                  1.7.4.4-2
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1

Versions of packages mariadb-server recommends:
ii  libhtml-template-perl           2.97-2
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2   1:10.11.4-1~deb12u1
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-lz4     1:10.11.4-1~deb12u1
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-lzma    1:10.11.4-1~deb12u1
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-lzo     1:10.11.4-1~deb12u1
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-snappy  1:10.11.4-1~deb12u1
ii  pv                              1.6.20-1

Versions of packages mariadb-server suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1
pn  mariadb-test       <none>
ii  netcat-openbsd     1.219-1

-- debconf information:
  mariadb-server/postrm_remove_databases: false
  mariadb-server/nis_warning:
  mariadb-server/old_data_directory_saved: