Bug#722635: sasl2-bin: apt-get purge sasl2-bin fail

[Nigel Horne]

Package: sasl2-bin
Version: 2.1.25.dfsg1-11
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
   apt-get purge sasl2
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   apt-get purge sasl2
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   Reading package lists... Done
   Building dependency tree       
   Reading state information... Done
   The following packages will be REMOVED:
     sasl2-bin*
     0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
     After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
     Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
     (Reading database ... 153172 files and directories currently installed.)
     Removing sasl2-bin ...
     Purging configuration files for sasl2-bin ...
     rmdir: invalid option -- 'f'
     Try 'rmdir --help' for more information.
     dpkg: error processing sasl2-bin (--purge):
      subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
      Errors were encountered while processing:
       sasl2-bin
       E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
   The package would be removed

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sasl2-bin depends on:
pn  db-util                <none>
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.51
ii  libc6                  2.17-92+b1
ii  libcomerr2             1.42.8-1
ii  libdb5.1               5.1.29-7
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.11.3+dfsg-3
ii  libk5crypto3           1.11.3+dfsg-3
ii  libkrb5-3              1.11.3+dfsg-3
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.31-1+nmu2+b1
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-9
ii  libsasl2-2             2.1.25.dfsg1-14
ii  libssl1.0.0            1.0.1e-3
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian12

sasl2-bin recommends no packages.

sasl2-bin suggests no packages.