[debian-mysql] Bug#511929: mysql-server: ...and it seems to require a purge/reinstall

[Greg Kochanski]

Package: mysql-server
Version: 5.0.51a-21
Followup-For: Bug #511929


The resulting error messages are very confusing.   Without
extensive knowledge of mysql, it seems to require a purge/reinstall
to recover from a bad choice of password.    A dpkg --configure
doesn't work.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mysql-server depends on:
ii  mysql-server-5.0              5.0.51a-21 MySQL database server binaries

mysql-server recommends no packages.

mysql-server suggests no packages.

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