On Wednesday 26 of January 2005 00:50, you wrote:
> > Before installing the mysql-server package the mysql user was placed in
> > passwd.db. It made a "Fatal error: Can't change to run as user 'mysql'.
> > Please check that the user exists!' error". I did some outputs for you
> > and then fixed the /etc/passwd with getent command then reinstalled
> > mysql-server
>
> Then it's really the exact problem that was reported originally to
> this bug number. I can't help then as it's a Woody package but tell
> you that the problem is fixed in newer packages.

No, it isn't:

$ dpkg -s mysql-server|grep ^Version
Version: 4.0.23-3

You can consider the hack with "getent passwd mysql >> /etc/passwd" or just 
show DebConf message if the mysql user entry is missing in /etc/passwd...

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