buildpackage: use os.makedirs to create export dirs

Thanks: Andrea Zagli for the suggestion

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/gbp/scripts/buildpackage.py b/gbp/scripts/buildpackage.py
index d431c4cf..6524f017 100755
--- a/gbp/scripts/buildpackage.py
+++ b/gbp/scripts/buildpackage.py
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ def export_source(repo, tree, source, options, dest_dir, tarball_dir):
 def move_old_export(target):
     """move a build tree away if it exists"""
     try:
-        os.mkdir(target)
+        os.makedirs(target)
     except OSError as e:
         if e.errno == errno.EEXIST:
             os.rename(target, "%s.obsolete.%s" % (target, time.time()))
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ def prepare_output_dir(dir):
     output_dir = os.path.abspath(dir or '..')
 
     try:
-        os.mkdir(output_dir)
+        os.makedirs(output_dir)
     except OSError as e:
         if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:
             raise GbpError("Cannot create output dir %s" % output_dir)
diff --git a/tests/component/deb/test_buildpackage.py b/tests/component/deb/test_buildpackage.py
index 74d1fbb0..822f2009 100644
--- a/tests/component/deb/test_buildpackage.py
+++ b/tests/component/deb/test_buildpackage.py
@@ -147,6 +147,6 @@ class TestBuildpackage(ComponentTestBase):
         self._test_buildpackage('hello-debhelper',
                                 'dsc-3.0',
                                 '2.8-1',
-                                ['--git-export-dir=../foo'],
+                                ['--git-export-dir=../foo/bar'],
                                 )
-        ok_(os.path.exists('../foo'))
+        ok_(os.path.exists('../foo/bar'))