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.

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x11-common preinst script fails (was: aborts /usr/X11R6/bin not empty)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67996
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