Package: mariadb-client Version: 1:10.11.4-1~deb12u1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
Could it be possible to provide a default charset value for both client and server packages? Currently I observe the following: $ mysql -p Enter password: Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MariaDB connection id is 91009409 Server version: 10.11.4-MariaDB-1~deb12u1 Debian 12 Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. MariaDB [(none)]> \s -------------- mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.11.4-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper Connection id: 91009409 Current database: Current user: patrice@localhost SSL: Not in use Current pager: stdout Using outfile: '' Using delimiter: ; Server: MariaDB Server version: 10.11.4-MariaDB-1~deb12u1 Debian 12 Protocol version: 10 Connection: Localhost via UNIX socket Server characterset: utf8mb4 Db characterset: utf8mb4 Client characterset: utf8mb3 Conn. characterset: utf8mb3 $ rgrep -B 3 "mb4" /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/ /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf- /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf-# MySQL/MariaDB default is Latin1, but in Debian we rather default to the full /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf-# utf8 4-byte character set. See also client.cnf /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf:character-set-server = utf8mb4 /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf:collation-server = utf8mb4_general_ci and nothing in the 50-client.cnf Regards, Patrice -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) 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-client depends on: ii debianutils 5.7-0.5~deb12u1 ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u3 ii libconfig-inifiles-perl 3.000003-2 ii libssl3 3.0.11-1~deb12u2 ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14 ii mariadb-client-core 1:10.11.4-1~deb12u1 ii perl 5.36.0-7 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1 Versions of packages mariadb-client recommends: ii libdbd-mysql-perl 4.050-5+b1 ii libdbi-perl 1.643-4 ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-2+b1 mariadb-client suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
