deb package installation fails with "dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mariadb-server"

Setting up mariadb-server-10.1 (10.1.3+maria-1~squeeze) ...

Stopping MariaDB database server: mysqld.

dpkg: error processing mariadb-server-10.1 (--configure):

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Setting up libhtml-template-perl (2.9-2) ...

configured to not write apport reports

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mariadb-server:

 mariadb-server depends on mariadb-server-10.1 (= 10.1.3+maria-1~squeeze); however:

  Package mariadb-server-10.1 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing mariadb-server (--configure):

 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

configured to not write apport reports

Errors were encountered while processing:

 mariadb-server-10.1

 mariadb-server

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Mar 29 23:55:48 debian mysqld_safe[2279]: 

Mar 29 23:55:48 debian mysqld_safe[2279]: FATAL ERROR: Could not find /usr/share/mysql/maria_add_gis_sp_bootstrap.sql

Mar 29 23:55:48 debian mysqld_safe[2279]: