Bug#637484: /usr/bin/apt-ftparchive: apt-ftparchive doesn't create directories

[Karl Goetz <karl@kgoetz.id.au>]

Package: apt-utils
Version: 0.8.10.3+squeeze1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/apt-ftparchive
User: gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org
Usertags: gnewsense

hi,
apt-ftparchive doesn't create its needed directories, and doesn't mention this
in its manual page. It would be great if this could be fixed by creating the
directories, but simply documenting the behaviour would be nice.
thanks,
kk

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages apt-utils depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg4.10]   0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                  2.11.2-10         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdb4.8               4.8.30-2          Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.5-8         GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.5-8           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt-utils recommends no packages.

apt-utils suggests no packages.

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