Directory '/home/me/.local/share/mime/packages' does not exist!

[probonopd]

me@host:~/Desktop$ tail /var/log/syslog
Jun 16 11:05:16 host appimaged[1943]: Updating desktop...
Jun 16 11:05:16 host appimaged[1943]: Directory '/home/me/.local/share/mime/packages' does not exist!
Jun 16 11:05:16 host appimaged[1943]: Warning: update-mime-database retuned non-zero exit code:
Jun 16 11:05:16 host appimaged[1943]: gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.
Jun 16 11:05:16 host appimaged[1943]: Finished updating desktop in 22 milliseconds.

me@host:~/Desktop$ gtk-update-icon-cache 
me@host:~/Desktop$ mkdir -p /home/me/.local/share/mime/packages
me@host:~/Desktop$ update-mime-database /home/me/.local/share/mime/packages/
Directory '/home/me/.local/share/mime/packages/packages' does not exist!
me@host:~/Desktop$ mkdir -p /home/me/.local/share/mime/packages/
me@host:~/Desktop$ update-mime-database /home/me/.local/share/mime/packages/
Directory '/home/me/.local/share/mime/packages/packages' does not exist!
me@host:~/Desktop$ ls /home/me/.local/share/mime/packages/
me@host:~/Desktop$ ls -lh /home/me/.local/share/mime/packages/
total 0
me@host:~/Desktop$ ls -lh /home/me/.local/share/mime/packages
total 0
me@host:~/Desktop$ ls -lh /home/me/.local/share/mime/
total 2.8M
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 2.1M Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_04904276f14e7c569616fb53e8225f88_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me  771 Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_2b0c884a338a1c090f1bfa1948ce9528_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me    0 Jun 16 11:04 appimagekit_40cbff7d1c6e274241bfc8a049c04bed_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 2.4K Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_4ef54f8188642bf13a0763720d7e2d7e_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me  297 Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_4f04b675dd7a9f47a363541af7f8ebc6_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 1.6K Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_4fd5816d35a1782192df11ed5b1523cf_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 1.4K Jun 16 11:04 appimagekit_64ab66fa8392d6bc39344b9759a22e7f_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me  285 Jun 16 11:04 appimagekit_6ae5f458ebbf1c934b5f12f398fd4876_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me  362 Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_79c0ef69389a5351f02b80cfc18505c8_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me    0 Jun 16 11:04 appimagekit_8fccc31f917e3e8eb7e61263c5dd320e_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me  312 Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_92e57f62545183bf6158fb99b38080e2_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me  326 Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_9ae240a8cd7373fff44aa738d496a6e3_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me    0 Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_9ef53808fd014952c1e3e3ce87e035cf_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me    0 Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_a5837fc1048f9cf50513567a01e040d9_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me  326 Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_b1416ead55722b620debca19b7ba416e_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me    0 Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_c0571c905070536d566bbe878b0600c2_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 210K Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_c14bf8d231b5bd071af1027d7ff61d22_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me    0 Jun 16 11:04 appimagekit_c83862d2820cf0e4eeeaf49e8b0f8d72_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me  285 Jun 16 11:04 appimagekit_cbf72910b1ce1dcbe381c1bce98327e0_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me    0 Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_d02dd437e727809315c21d0cc8367e6c_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 3.5K Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_d8f6be2c7cbc59293e9e297a9d5b465e_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me  285 Jun 16 11:04 appimagekit_e65dc53f205780fd2144fa38997381c1_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 407K Jun 16 11:05 appimagekit_e6bfcf18a8e0056330297acedc3e070b_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 7.0K Jun 16 11:04 appimagekit_edf8b56f52f14ea646694b231086566e_packages
drwxrwxr-x 2 me me   40 Jun 16 11:05 packages

cc @azubieta

[probonopd]

~/.local/share/mime/packages/ is supposed to be a directory that contains the xml files.
Instead, we seem to be dumping the xml files into .local/share/mime/. Is this a libappimage bug?