Comment 6 for bug 85266

Fixed in intrepid, will be fixed in hardy. For older releases, use a work-around, eg. just apply the following one-liner patch to the init script:

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@

   start)
        echo -n "Starting Next generation IRC server: "
+ mkdir -p /var/run/ngircd/
        start-stop-daemon --start --chuid irc:irc \
        --make-pidfile --background \
        --pidfile /var/run/ngircd/ngircd.pid \