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The more correct is to create /etc/systemd/system/mariadb.service.d/homedir.conf
This way the rest of the systemd file is preserved and other changes during upgrade still occurs. See MariaDB systemd documentation: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/systemd/. Thanks for contributing, this form of failure sure be documented here too.