cg-status and empty directories

Hello,

Short story: Recently I noticed a change in the way, cogito handles empty directories. Before, empty directories have been silently ignored. Now cg-status always lists the status of empty directories as unknown, but it still refuses to add them. If there is a good reason for this behaviour, can someone enlighten me?

Long story: I'm using cogito to track and distribute changes on the /etc directories of a few (almost) identical machines. Whenever I install a package which modifies somthing in /etc, I commit those changes. But with cg-status reporting all the empty directories as "unknown", my brain needs a long time to parse the list and find the really unknown files which shall be put under version control.

Many packages put empty directories under /etc, and although only a few of those directories are actually needed, the automatic removal of those packages will fail if I remove the empty directories manually. Equally, the removal will fail, if I put a .placeholder file into those direrectories and cg-add it. Is there a simple way out?

Regards, Jim