Dear maintainer(s),

With a recent upload of mariadb the autopkgtest of mediawiki fails in
testing when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages of mariadb
from unstable. It passes when run with only packages from testing. In
tabular form:

                        pass            fail
mariadb                from testing    1:11.8.9+ds-4
mediawiki              from testing    1:1.43.11+dfsg-1
all others             from testing    from testing

I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report.

Currently this regression is blocking the migration of mariadb to
testing [1]. Due to the nature of this issue, I filed this bug report
against both packages. Can you please investigate the situation and
reassign the bug to the right package?

More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be found on
https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation

Paul

[1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=mariadb

https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/m/mediawiki/77031534/log.gz

865s PHP 8.4.26 is installed.
865s ICU 78.3 is installed (supports Unicode 17.0.0).
865s Warning: Could not find APCu. Object caching is not enabled.
865s Could not find GD library or ImageMagick. Image thumbnailing will
be disabled.
865s Git version control software not found. You can ignore this for
now. Note Special:Version will not display commit hashes.
865s Using server name "http://localhost".
865s Using server URL "http://localhost/mediawiki".
865s Warning: Your default directory for uploads
(/usr/share/mediawiki/images/) is not checked for vulnerability to
arbitrary script execution during the CLI install.
865s Warning: Requests for images in your uploads directory should
answer with the HTTP header X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to protect
browsers from potentially unsafe files. It is highly recommended to
configure appropriate response headers on your webserver before enabling
uploads.
865s The environment has been checked. You can install MediaWiki.
865s Setting up database
865s Cannot access the database: :real_connect(): (HY000/2002): No such
file or directory. Check the host, username and password and try again.
If using "localhost" as the database host, try using "127.0.0.1" instead
(or vice versa).
865s ***failed***
866s autopkgtest [13:38:51]: test install-mysql

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
mediawiki, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1151958@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Taavi Väänänen <taavi@debian.org> (supplier of updated mediawiki package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:38:39 +0200
Source: mediawiki
Architecture: source
Version: 1:1.43.11+dfsg-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: MediaWiki packaging team <mediawiki-debian@lists.wikimedia.org>
Changed-By: Taavi Väänänen <taavi@debian.org>
Closes: 1151958
Changes:
 mediawiki (1:1.43.11+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Lena Voytek ]
   * Drop default-mysql-server usage (Closes: #1151958)
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Hi,

There is already a MR pending since Oct 1st at
https://salsa.debian.org/mediawiki-team/mediawiki/-/merge_requests/6
but waiting to be finalized

notfixed 1151958 1:1.43.11+dfsg-2
fixed 1151958 1:1.43.11+dfsg-3
thanks

It seems like I was a bit too eager to close this (and only ran the
tests locally on testing instead of unstable, oops). I just uploaded a
-3 which fixes the test suite properly.

I believe the various mediawiki-extension-* and mediawiki-skin-*
packages will need similar fixes which I'll work on next.

t