> diff --git a/debian/mariadb-server-10.1.mysql.init b/debian/mariadb-server-10.1.mysql.init
> index 9e098b4..005d0e8 100644
> --- a/debian/mariadb-server-10.1.mysql.init
> +++ b/debian/mariadb-server-10.1.mysql.init
> @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ case "${1:-''}" in
>           /usr/bin/mysqld_safe "${@:2}" > /dev/null 2>&1 &
>
>           # 6s was reported in #352070 to be too little
> -         for i in $(seq 1 "${MYSQLD_STARTUP_TIMEOUT:-30}"); do
> +         for i in $(seq 1 "${MYSQLD_STARTUP_TIMEOUT:-60}"); do
>                  sleep 1

This doesn't fix much. Next time somebody will need 61 second and you'll
adjust to 120?  SST might take many minutes and it's not a good idea to
have every user wait this long.

Instead you should do what MDEV-8509 says. Add a line like

  [ -r /etc/default/mariadb ] && . /etc/default/mariadb

then one can have a very personal setting of MYSQLD_STARTUP_TIMEOUT
in /etc/default/mariadb

Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect MariaDB
and security@mariadb.org