MariaDB and MySQL use versioned package layout in Fedora nowadays.

That means multiple LTS versions of the same DB are packed in parallel as differently named packages (mariadb10.11, mariadb11.8, mariadb12.3, ...).

Exactly one of these packages is chosen as "distribution default" version, which provides the unversioned names (mariadb, mariadb-server, ...).

However when your package Requires the unversioned name, it cannot be used with any other version of that database.

Virtual RPM provides with '-any' suffixes, (mariadb-any, mariadb-server-any, ...) which are provided by every version of that database, has to be used instead.


To fix it, instead of:
  Requires: mariadb
use:
  Requires: mariadb-any
  Recommends: mariadb

or e.g. instead:
  Requires: mariadb-server
use:
  Requires: mariadb-server-any
  Recommends: mariadb-server

(based on the type of RPM relationship you use in your package)

Where the Requires make sure it can be satisfied by any database version, while the recommends sets a preference for the distribution default version for that Fedora release, when no database is installed yet.

This has to be fixed in all active Fedora releases.
Please apply the necessary fix to your package and prepare an update in BODHI.

Reproducible: Always