Comment 4 for bug 129880

This bug is still present in bzr 1.9.

John A Meinel: After testing, it appears that you *do* have to modify the file before/after moving it out of the directory. If you don't modify the file, bazaar deletes the directory just fine.

This bug would seem to be a trivial thing to fix (admittedly, I don't know the innards of bazaar at all). Why is it a year old?