lineEnding parameter makes assembly ignore empty directories

Hi,

I'm in front of a bug with the Assembly plugin. When I use the lineEndings
property inside an assembly, the plugin start to ignore empty folders. If I
remove the lineEnding property, then the plugin include empty folders again.

I found that Jira about that bug:
https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-578. It seems to be an old
ticket (2011) that was created for the version 2.2 of the plugin. I still
have this bug with the version 2.4.

Is there someone with a workaround for that bug? May it possible to have
that bug resolved soon?

Thanks :-)