Bug#284995: Fails to uninstall dur to failed rmdir:/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/pxr/

[Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@tait.co.nz>]

Package: tetex-base
Severity: normal

When uninstalling tetex-base I got the error:

tarakihi:/home/bob# apt-get remove --purge tetex-base
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
 tetex-base* tetex-bin* tetex-extra*
 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
 Need to get 0B of archives.
 After unpacking 104MB disk space will be freed.
 Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
 (Reading database ... 163507 files and directories currently installed.)
 Removing tetex-extra ...
 Purging configuration files for tetex-extra ...
 Removing tetex-bin ...
 Purging configuration files for tetex-bin ...
 Removing tetex-base ...
 rmdir: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/pxr/': No such file or directory
 dpkg: error processing tetex-base (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
 Errors were encountered while processing:
 tetex-base
 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 
 
I had a version not far before 2.0.2c-2.1
 
I created the directory to fix this

--Robert Ancell

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.4.41     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.10.25    Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  texinfo                       4.7-2.2    Documentation system for on-line i
ii  ucf                           1.13       Update Configuration File: preserv