Comment 2 for bug 242618

I'm a bit confused by your comment; setting importance to "low" seems to imply that a fix will be in the next Gnome - which means Ubuntu 8.10. Or am I mistaken here?
This bug is too important for that: network users should be able to rely on the correct rights for their new directories - you can't have an LTS release that applies the incorrect rights to new directories for 5 years.

Besides, the fix is trivial (see Gnome bugzilla):
@@ -1974,7 +1981,7 @@
 {
   GLocalFile *local = G_LOCAL_FILE (file);

- if (g_mkdir (local->filename, 0755) == -1)
+ if (g_mkdir (local->filename, 0777) == -1)
     {
       int errsv = errno;

This should be added to the /debian/patches dir (and I'm not sure how to get it there - is Debian bug tracking the right place?