I believe the issue may have been introduced by the debian change:
-- Rob Browning <snipped> Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:55:25 -0700
emacs23 (23.1+1-2) unstable; urgency=low
...
* Fix update-alternatives to reflect the fact that all the binaries
have manpages now. Rename manpages from NAME.1FLAVOR to
NAME.FLAVOR.1.
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Title:
update-alternatives fails to create link to editor man page
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