[debian-mysql] Bug#865931: mysql-server: Does not allow me to change root password

[Fabián Bonetti]

Package: mysql-server
Version: 5.5.9999+default
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

First mistake is to call the mysql-server package, because you would be lying to everyone.

mama at zeuza:~$ mysql --version
mysql  Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.1.23-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 5.2

mama at zeuza:~$ apt-cache show mysql-server
Package: mysql-server
Source: mysql-transitional
Version: 5.5.9999+default
Installed-Size: 8
Maintainer: Ondřej Surý <ondrej at debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Depends: default-mysql-server
Description-en: MySQL database server binaries and system database setup [transitional]
 This is a transitional MySQL database that depends on default MySQL
 database metapackage.  It can be safely removed.
Description-md5: 9640aa018a23c1a7160742ea78f76557
Tag: devel::lang:sql, implemented-in::c, implemented-in::c++,
 interface::daemon, network::server, protocol::db:mysql,
 role::metapackage, role::program, scope::suite, works-with::db
Section: database
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mysql-transitional/mysql-server_5.5.9999+default_i386.deb
Size: 1704
MD5sum: 39e949ff347bb31d0bfbec92afce18e4
SHA256: 27c9f5f9878e43e4c6bbf54038a4c7191b187fde1277711d291d594a5f70ea77

Now I come to explain my problem.


Does not allow me to assign a root password.

I did everything that says there but it does not work.

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mysql_secure_installation/

Please in the future do not place pseudo packages.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mysql-server depends on:
ii  default-mysql-server  1.0.2

mysql-server recommends no packages.

mysql-server suggests no packages.

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