Hello. I have re-read the logs for this bug from the beginning, and I see that I have been wrongly assuming (sorry!) that a Depends: emacsen-common in gettext would force the user to install some emacs flavour, but in fact emacsen-common just says:
Depends: bsdmainutils Just in case I'm missing anything: Am I right that it's completely possible to install emacsen-common and not installing any emacs flavour? [ emacsen-common is a relatively small package. Making gettext to depend on it, even if you don't plan to use emacs po-mode at all, would not be such a tragedy ].
