Bug#405636: python-xml: unable to delete old directory `/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/utils'

[Ross Boylan]

Whatever is going on seems to be specific to python-xml.  Here are
deletions of 2 older versions of python (these were done after the
previous report):
# date; apt-get -q remove python2.1 python2.1-doc
Thu Jan  4 21:50:47 PST 2007
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  idle-python2.1 python2.1 python2.1-dev python2.1-doc python2.1-email python2.1-examples python2.1-extclass python2.1-gdbm
  python2.1-imaging python2.1-imaging-sane python2.1-imaging-tk python2.1-kjbuckets python2.1-mpz python2.1-numeric python2.1-tk
  python2.1-xml python2.1-xmlbase
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 17 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 27.7MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 301368 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing idle-python2.1 ...
Removing python2.1-imaging-sane ...
Removing python2.1-imaging-tk ...
Removing python2.1-imaging ...
Removing python2.1-email ...
Removing python2.1-extclass ...
Removing python2.1-tk ...
Removing python2.1-dev ...
Removing python2.1-mpz ...
Removing python2.1-numeric ...
Removing python2.1-examples ...
Removing python2.1-gdbm ...
Removing python2.1-xml ...
Removing python2.1-kjbuckets ...
Removing python2.1-xmlbase ...
dpkg - warning: while removing python2.1-xmlbase, directory `/usr/lib/python2.1/xml/sax' not empty so not removed.
dpkg - warning: while removing python2.1-xmlbase, directory `/usr/lib/python2.1/xml/parsers' not empty so not removed.
dpkg - warning: while removing python2.1-xmlbase, directory `/usr/lib/python2.1/xml/dom' not empty so not removed.
dpkg - warning: while removing python2.1-xmlbase, directory `/usr/lib/python2.1/xml' not empty so not removed.
Removing python2.1 ...
Removing python2.1-doc ...
wheat:/usr/local/rootlog# date; apt-get -q remove python2-base
Thu Jan  4 21:56:53 PST 2007
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  python2-base python2-examples python2-tk python2-xmlbase
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 8544kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 298680 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing python2-xmlbase ...
dpkg - warning: while removing python2-xmlbase, directory `/usr/lib/python2.0/xml/sax' not empty so not removed.
dpkg - warning: while removing python2-xmlbase, directory `/usr/lib/python2.0/xml/parsers' not empty so not removed.
dpkg - warning: while removing python2-xmlbase, directory `/usr/lib/python2.0/xml/dom' not empty so not removed.
dpkg - warning: while removing python2-xmlbase, directory `/usr/lib/python2.0/xml' not empty so not removed.
Removing python2-examples ...
Removing python2-tk ...
Removing python2-base ...