apparmor_profile -R /etc/apparmor.d/<profile> no longer works

Binary package hint: apparmor

$ sudo apparmor_parser -R /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd
[234]
$ sudo cat /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/profiles | grep cupsd
/usr/sbin/cupsd (enforce)

This does work though:
$ sudo sh -c 'echo -n "/usr/sbin/cupsd" >/sys/kernel/security/apparmor/.remove'
$ sudo cat /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/profiles | grep cupsd
$

ProblemType: Bug
ApparmorStatusOutput:
 Error: command /usr/sbin/apparmor_status failed with exit code 4: You do not have enough privilege to read the profile set.
 apparmor module is loaded.
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jul 17 12:05:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: apparmor 2.3.1+1403-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic
SourcePackage: apparmor
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic x86_64