update-alternatives fails to create link to editor man page

Binary package hint: emacs23

When updating alternative to make emacs the default editor the following warning is emitted:

ayers@schiefer:~$ LANG=C sudo update-alternatives --config editor
There are 4 choices for the alternative editor (providing /usr/bin/editor).

  Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /bin/nano 40 auto mode
  1 /bin/ed -100 manual mode
  2 /bin/nano 40 manual mode
  3 /usr/bin/emacs23 0 manual mode
  4 /usr/bin/vim.tiny 10 manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 3
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/emacs23 to provide /usr/bin/editor (editor) in manual mode.
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/share/man/man1/editor.1.gz because associated file /usr/share/man/man1/emacs.1emacs23.1.gz (of link group editor) doesn't exist.

The file of the emacs-common package is /usr/share/man/man1/emacs.emacs23.1.gz

I'm not sure whether the file name or the update-alternatives snippets need to be corrected.

This issue exists in both Lucid and Maverick.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: emacs23-common 23.1+1-4ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 1 20:17:45 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_AT.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: emacs23