DFR Recommended Library for SQL Interface

Cannot install the MariaDB Python library:

  Downloading mariadb-1.1.6.tar.gz (83 kB)
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 83.7/83.7 kB 1.1 MB/s eta 0:00:00
 Installing build dependencies ... done
 Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
 error: subprocess-exited-with-error
 
 × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
 │ exit code: 2
 ╰─> [1 lines of output]
     MariaDB Connector/Python requires MariaDB Connector/C >= 3.3.1, found version 3.1.21
     [end of output]

The UNIHIKER OS repository does not provide the required version by default. Building the Connector from source may upset the apple cart (i.e. after all the OS is Buster). Is there a direct solution? Thanks.

Regards.

P.S.

Of course, there is a workaround, but that requires two extra hops!