Comment 8 for bug 382713

No I haven't restarted from backup. The OS has only been installed since Fall of 2008. The line you mentioned is included in the initd./mysql script.

The rest of my /etc/mysql directory is:

drw-r----- 2 root root 4096 2009-04-26 08:06 conf.d
-rw------- 1 root root 312 2008-11-29 07:56 debian.cnf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1198 2008-09-19 09:24 debian-start
-rw-r----- 1 root root 4228 2009-04-04 19:07 my.cnf
-rw-r----- 1 root root 4226 2008-12-12 16:29 my.cnf~
-rw-r----- 1 root root 4088 2009-03-30 16:18 my.cnf.dpkg-dist