inkscape crashes on saving to non-existant dir when used from command line

Inkscape crashes every time when saving to a dir that does not exist when performing conversions on the command line

inkscape file.svg -A .../file.pdf

note the incorrect triple ".".

This triggers the following error:

inkscape: fopen(.../file.pdf): No such file or directory
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Inkscape::Extension::Output::save_failed'

Emergency save activated!
Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now.
If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org
with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it.
** Message: Error: Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now.

Aborted

Installed via aptitude from debian testing

$ aptitude show inkscape
Package: inkscape
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 0.47pre4-1
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
Maintainer: Wolfram Quester <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 84.2M
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.7.2), libcairomm-1.0-1 (>= 1.6.4), libfontconfig1 (>=
         2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgc1c2 (>= 1:6.8-1.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.27.0),
         libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libglibmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 2.22.0), libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 1:2.17.90), libgomp1 (>= 4.2.1),
         libgsl0ldbl (>= 1.9), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 1:2.18.0), libgtkspell0 (>= 2.0.10),
         liblcms1 (>= 1.15-1), libmagick++2, libmagickcore2, libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangomm-1.4-1 (>= 2.26.0),
         libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libpoppler-glib4 (>= 0.12), libpoppler5, libpopt0 (>= 1.15), libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>=
         2.0.2), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1), libwpd8c2a, libwpg-0.1-1, libx11-6, libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libxslt1.1 (>= 1.1.18),
         zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: libwmf-bin, pstoedit, imagemagick, perlmagick
Suggests: dia | dia-gnome, ruby, libgnomevfs2-extra, libsvg-perl, libxml-xql-perl, python, python-numpy, python-lxml,
          python-uniconvertor, skencil, ttf-bitstream-vera