Does debhelper prune empty directories?

[Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net>]

Hi,

I'm working on a package where I have a directory tree listed in the 
'install' file with a destination directory.  This source directory tree 
has a few empty subdirectories in it.  Somehow during the build process, 
these empty subdirectories are disappearing.  Does debhelper prune empty 
subdirectories?  If so, is there a way to avoid that?

What's strange is that this only seems to be happening in the main 
package.  I have a subpackage which does a similar operation, but it's 
empty directories seem to be preserved.

Thanks,
Scott