Comment 10 for bug 2008814

Note that users who install this update might still have to wait for a day to get the actual bugfix, as the apt-news service, which is what creates the missing directory, only runs if the last apt update is older than a day.

So if you did "apt update; apt dist-upgrade", you will get the updated u-a-t package, but since apt update was *just* run, the missing directory will only be created after 24h, when apt-news finally runs again.