Public bug reported:

I believe a long time ago, on the order of months, an install/uninstall
of the apt-get package mysql-server failed to complete, and now I am
unable to reinstall it and probably unable to truly uninstall it.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: mysql-server-5.7 5.7.21-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-112.135-generic 4.4.98
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-112-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 28 12:03:11 2018
DuplicateSignature:
 package:mysql-server-5.7:5.7.21-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
 Setting up mysql-server-5.7 (5.7.21-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
 /var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server-5.7.postinst: line 143: 
/usr/share/mysql-common/configure-symlinks: No such file or directory
 dpkg: error processing package mysql-server-5.7 (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit 
status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-16 (196 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
Logs.var.log.daemon.log:
 
MySQLConf.etc.mysql.my.cnf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
'/etc/mysql/my.cnf'
ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-112-generic 
root=UUID=92a80525-7403-460e-8603-ff0a82e12be1 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.3
 apt  1.2.24
SourcePackage: mysql-5.7
Title: package mysql-server-5.7 5.7.21-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 failed to 
install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error 
exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: mysql-5.7 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apparmor apport-package xenial

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Title:
  I believe a long time ago, on the order of months, an
  install/uninstall of the apt-get package mysql-server failed to
  complete, and now I am unable to reinstall it and probably unable to
  truly uninstall it.

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