Bug#305595: "doodle -b $HOME" exits on permission denied

[amos]

Package: doodle
Version: 0.6.2-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I've been doing what the manual of doodle says to do and
here is what I get:

$ doodle -b $HOME
Error creating database '/var/lib/doodle/doodle.db' at tree.c:1783:
Permission denied

The directory /var/lib/doodle is unreadable either.
The package "doodled" is also installed.

Thanks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages doodle depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.63       Add and remove users and groups
ii  libdoodle1                    0.6.2-2    desktop search engine (library)

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