After a long time I could not get back to the issue I have checked the apparmor 
configuration file under 
/etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld

The upgrade script actually left the old version in place:
/etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld.dpkg-old

By comparing them I could identify the problem:

I have a custom MySQL data directory under /home/ ... 
The upgrade-script was not accounting for this custom setting while changing 
the apparmor config file.
So it changed the original directory /home/mysql/... to a standard /var/mysql 
... 

After correcting this problem and restarting the computer I was able to
configure the unconfigured package mysql-server-5.5 which solved the
problem.

Best thanks for hints, 
Nice day,
Zbyněk

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  package mysql-server-5.5 5.5.53-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 failed to
  install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script
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