#1141671 libmariadb3: Upgrade from 11.8.6 to 11.8.8 breaks MythTV: Column 'starttime' cannot be null

Package:
libmariadb3
Source:
libmariadb3
Description:
MariaDB database client library
Submitter:
Stephan Seitz
Date:
2026-07-08 16:36:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1141671#5
Date:
2026-07-08 10:46:05 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

after upgrading from MariaDB 11.8.6 to 11.8.8 MythTV didn’t record any
shows anymore. The logs show different errors of the kind „Column
'starttime' cannot be null”.

Downgrading only libmariadb3 to 11.8.6 fixes the problem.

In Fedore this problem is fixed by downgrading mariadb-connector-c from
3.4.9-1 to 3.4.8-3 according to the MythTV mailing list.

I don’t know if this is a bug in MythTV or MariaDB, but I’m wondering why
a minor release has such a change.

Besides 11.8.8 is scheduled for the next Debian 13 point release.

Many greetings,

	Stephan Seitz

#1141671#10
Date:
2026-07-08 16:34:16 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

This is likely a duplicate of
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1139473

We are tracking what upstream does in
https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/CONC-821 /
https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-c/pull/317
and will likely copy that to Debian.