[debian-mysql] Bug#844048: mysql-common: Fails to install when conffile /etc/mysql/my.cnf.fallback is removed

[Felipe Sateler]

Package: mysql-common
Version: 5.8+1.0.1
Severity: normal

As subject says. Error is:

update-alternatives: error: alternative path /etc/mysql/my.cnf.fallback doesn't exist


Perhaps preinst should recreate it before running update-alternatives?
If not desired, maybe it can suggest how to fix the issue (dpkg
--force-confask)

Saludos

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

-- no debconf information