[Building Sakai] SAK-12126: Deleting a collection containing sub-collections leaves top level ContentCollection in place

[Mark Norton]

Jim:

I'm working on integrating the SoftChalk content authoring tool into 
Sakai via a REST interface.  Among the requirements to make this work is 
deleting a collection.  I'm currently working in the 2.5.x branch and I 
ran smack into the SAK-12126 bug that leaves the top level folder in 
place after a delete operation if it contains sub-folders.  This is 
quite repeatable in the Resources tool.  There is an indication in Jira 
that this was fixed in 2.6.  Can you verify that?  Is there a patch for 
2.5.x?  Is there a work around?

I tried all sorts of things, including recursively deleting all members, 
but nothing worked.  This is a show stopper for me and I'm hoping that 
you'll have a solution.

- Mark Norton