command "mkdirhier" missing in breezy

[Matthias Kempka]

Until hoary, "mkdirhier" was delivered with the package xutils (
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hoary/x11/xutils )

It is not, however in xutils in breezy (
http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/x11/xutils ) and for that matter, it is not
found at all as an executable in breezy.

Search url:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=mkdirhier&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=breezy&arch=i386

Not few of scripts and Makefiles depend on that command, so I suppose this is a
mistake.

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

What packages are actually using mkdirhier?

[Matthias Kempka (ubuntu-mkempka)]

I don't know about packages, but I'm using it im my scripts and I saw makefiles
from others too, that used it. For me, it's important as end user.

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

Yup.. i was just curious if we did miss something.. anyway i am working on it
right now.

Fabio

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

Patch to fix this has been provided to daniel.

Daniel i am reassining the bug to you for inclusion and so you can also close it
when it's done.

Fabio

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

different shell script that just calls mkdir -p on all its arguments uploaded.

in future, you should not rely on mkdirhier's presence; mkdir -p is present on
all POSIX-conforming systems.