[DRE-maint] Bug#841583: ruby-dataobjects-mysql: FTBFS: mysql_install_db: [ERROR] unknown option '--force'

[Andreas Beckmann]

Followup-For: Bug #841583
Control: block -1 with 851131

The --force problem is specific to mysql, it does not happen with
mariadb. But it fails differently on mariadb:

[...]
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld 10.1.20-MariaDB-3) starting as process 3768 ...
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Using mutexes to ref count buffer pool pages
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: GCC builtin __atomic_thread_fence() is used for memory barrier
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.8
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Using SSE crc32 instructions
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda.
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: 128 rollback segment(s) are active.
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] InnoDB:  Percona XtraDB (http://www.percona.com) 5.6.34-79.1 started; log sequence number 1622838
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140101342430976 [Note] InnoDB: Dumping buffer pool(s) not yet started
2017-01-18 13:52:53 140102037378944 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '10.1.20-MariaDB-3'  socket: '/tmp/tmp.mXSW0s03Pw/mysql.sock'  port: 0  Debian unstable
/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost''
ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
debian/rules:19: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_install' failed

which seems to be another instance of #851131


Andreas