diff -u ser-2.0.0/debian/ser.init ser-2.0.0/debian/ser.init
--- ser-2.0.0/debian/ser.init
+++ ser-2.0.0/debian/ser.init
@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@
 
 set -e
 
+# Make sure /var/run/ subdirectories exists.
+if [ ! -e /var/run/$NAME ] ; then
+    mkdir -p /var/run/$NAME
+    chmod 755 /var/run/$NAME
+fi
+
+
 case "$1" in
   start)
 	echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
diff -u ser-2.0.0/debian/control ser-2.0.0/debian/control
--- ser-2.0.0/debian/control
+++ ser-2.0.0/debian/control
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 Source: ser
 Section: net
 Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Debian VoIP Team <pkg-voip-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Debian VoIP Team <pkg-voip-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Mark Purcell <msp@debian.org>, Kilian Krause <kilian@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: hardening-wrapper, debhelper (>= 5), quilt, libmysqlclient-dev, libexpat1-dev, libradiusclient-ng-dev, libxml2-dev, libpq-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev, libreadline5-dev, libosptk3-dev, uuid-dev, bison, flex
 Standards-Version: 3.8.1
diff -u ser-2.0.0/debian/changelog ser-2.0.0/debian/changelog
--- ser-2.0.0/debian/changelog
+++ ser-2.0.0/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+ser (2.0.0-4ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low
+
+  * debian/ser.init:
+    - Check for /var/run/ser on startup and create if it doesnt exist,
+    this is needed on systems where this directory is temporary (LP: #633182) 
+
+ -- SevenMachines <SevenMachines@yahoo.co.uk>  Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:07:35 +0100
+
 ser (2.0.0-4) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Rebuild for libc6 (2.10.2)