I noticed this as well, in an up to date sid/amd64 chroot with sbuild. I confirmed that there really is no emacs24-el directory at the point the build fails.
% find debian -maxdepth 1 -type d debian debian/emacs24-common debian/source debian/emacs24 debian/build-lucid debian/build-x debian/patches debian/emacs24-nox debian/emacs24-lucid debian/install-x debian/build-nox debian/emacs24-bin-common It seems reproducible, so let me know if there is something else you'd like me to check. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org