Merged a patch from Otavio:

* Create dpkg status file before calling APT

debian/changelog

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ debian-cd (3.0.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   [ Otavio Salvador ]
   * Fix extranonfree support to be backward compatible with previous
     behaviour (default to false)
+  * Create dpkg status file before calling APT
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:57:05 -0700
 

tools/apt-selection

@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ fi
 if [ ! -d "$APTTMP/$CODENAME-$ARCH/apt" ]; then
 	mkdir -p "$APTTMP/$CODENAME-$ARCH/apt"
 fi
+if [ ! -e "$APTTMP/$CODENAME-$ARCH/status" ]; then
+    touch "$APTTMP/$CODENAME-$ARCH/status"
+fi
 if [ ! -e "$APTTMP/$CODENAME-$ARCH/apt/sources.list" ]; then
 
 	# Generating a correct sources.list file