Comment 1 for bug 634100

RPM has never had a concept of %doc or %config applied to directories.
The attributes can only be meaningfully applied to a file, there are too many
issues enforcing rules like
    All files in a %doc directory must also be %doc

And with %config its even trickier because its not possible to
devise a semantic equivalent to a digest applied a file that
is needed to determine what action rpm performs when upgrading.

The original problem is likely related to an "orphan directory" i.e. a
directory that MUST be created because its in the path, but that
is not packaged. So when the policy for including %lang marked files
does not match an file in the orphan directory, the directory is not
lazily created when needed.