Comment 12 for bug 67996

This bug broke my upgrade today. It really should move the old bin/ aside if not empty, instead of failing. Aborted dist-upgrades are bad.

What happened today was:

  - I changed apt/sources.list to point to a new release.
  - I ran "apt-get dist-upgrade", and apt happily started making changes.
  - x11-common failed, so apt aborted.
  - I manually resolved the error (remove everything from /usr/X11R6/bin)

At this point, apt could not continue its dist-upgrade. Apt could only "apt-get -f install", which meant removing several hundred packages.

So, I spent the rest of the day recovering.