Bug#1067491: time_t transition upgrade: failed systemctl call in preinst due to missing pre-dependencies

Thanks Wouter for reporting this and Michael for submitting a merge request for a potential fix! The libcrypto.so.3 is from the OpenSSL package. In your upgrade case it seems to be switching from libssl3 [i386] to libssl3t64 [i386]. Your MariaDB packages are amd64. This makes me wonder what is

Bug#1067491: time_t transition upgrade: failed systemctl call in preinst due to missing pre-dependencies

Please see the related MR https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/75 By dropping the hand-written maintscript code, we should mitigate this problem, as the problematic code would not be run on upgrades. In addition, the generated maintscript code used "|| true", so

Bug#1067491: time_t transition upgrade: failed systemctl call in preinst due to missing pre-dependencies

Package: mariadb-server Version: 1:10.11.7-3 Severity: serious I did a 2G "apt dist-upgrade" to get my way through the time_t transition. This failed halfway through with the following messages: Uitpakken van .../10-mariadb-server_1%3a10.11.7-3_amd64.deb wordt voorbereid... systemctl: error