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

[Ondřej Surý]

Control: reassign -1 mariadb-server-10.1
Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tags -1 +moreinfo

Dear Fabián,

as a first thing, have you read README.Debian that comes with the MARIADB 
server? The online copy is here: 
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-mysql/mariadb-10.1.git/tree/debian/mariadb-server-10.1.README.Debian?h=master-stretch#n28

If that doesn't help then please provide more information:
- what exactly you did, the exact steps to reproduce the issue you are 
having, the "I did everything" isn't very informative as "everything" might 
include different steps for different people
- what does "it does not work"

Also please don't mix several issues in one bug report.

And finally - jumping off the high horse would allow to look into Debian 
MySQL maintainers mailing list and find this thread with the reasoning 
behind the mysql-transitional package:

https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/2017-May/010913.html

Cheers,
Ondřej


On 26 June 2017 01:03:15 Fabián Bonetti <noreply-1 at mamalibre.com.ar> wrote:

> 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.
>
> -- no debconf information
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