I've filed a bug against the Debian package for this issue, although I think the failure to actually create the database may have been a fault of the wwwconfig-common package.
The bug report is at:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284999
Regards,
Andrew McMillan.
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