On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 05:21:23PM +0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Package: dovecot > Severity: normal > Control: affects -1 + src:mysql-defaults > > Dear Maintainer, > > Following a recent discussion on debian-devel@[1], there is a plan to > dismantle > the default-mysql-* virtual package construct provided by the mysql-defaults > source package. With the recent releases of MySQL 9.7 and MariaDB 12.3, there > is > now enough divergence between the two codebases to warrant dismantling this > metapackage in the Forky (Debian 14) cycle.
I think what we'll want to do for dovecot is rename the dovecot-mysql package to dovecot-mariadb while we're making this change. So, we'll update debian/control to rename and adjust dependencies for the existing dovecot-mysql package, add a replacement dovecot-mysql transitional package to be deleted after forky, and update the remaining debian/* metadata as appropriate. noah
