Bug#362885: x11-common: unable to upgrade, rmdir: /usr/X11R6/bin: Directory not empty

[Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>]

Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.0.11
Severity: serious

Hello,

I cannot upgrade the package on my system because it repeatedly fails
with:

rmdir: /usr/X11R6/bin: Directory not empty
x11-common postinst error: Could not remove /usr/X11R6/bin. Is not yet
empty
dpkg: error processing x11-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 74
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  x11-common
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Well, yes, there is one remaining file added manually by me, however the
postinst should not rely on that and fail otherwise.

Eduard.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages x11-common depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.72     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.15.5     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  laptop-detect                 0.12.1     attempt to detect a laptop
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-3      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

x11-common recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  x11-common/xwrapper/allowed_users: Console Users Only
  x11-common/experimental_packages:
  x11-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: console
  x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error:
  x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value: 0