I've attached a patch to debian-emacs-policy that helps to fix this bug. I mentioned this on the debian-emacsen list, and no one had anything to say about it after a couple of weeks, so it seems to be non-controversial.
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--- debian-emacs-policy 2006-11-20 22:45:46.000000000 -0500
+++ debian-emacs-policy 2006-11-20 22:52:09.000000000 -0500
@@ -236,6 +236,17 @@
file. emacsen-common will make sure that the install/remove
scripts are ordered to respect inter-add-on package dependencies.
+ E) If an Emacs add-on package compiles any of its Emacs Lisp
+ sources, it should install the compiled bytecode files to
+ /usr/share/<flavour>/site-lisp/<package-name>. It should also
+ create a symlink for each Emacs Lisp source file in
+ /usr/share/<emacs>/site-lisp/<package-name> and store the symlink
+ in /usr/share/<flavour>/site-lisp/<package-name>. If any
+ byte-compiled Emacs Lisp code is stored in a subdirectory,
+ similar treatment should be used. This ensures that Emacs will
+ be able to locate the source code for the add-on package when
+ using M-x find-function and similar functionality.
+
7) Mandatory binary symlink
Each emacsen main package must have a symlink
@@ -277,6 +288,14 @@
(fboundp 'debian-pkg-add-load-path-item) before calling this
function, or add a dependency on emacsen-common (>= 1.4.14).
+ If an Emacs add-on package compiles its Emacs Lisp sources, it
+ should only add /usr/share/<flavour>/site-lisp/<package-name> (and
+ its subdirectories of compiled code, if applicable) to the load
+ path, rather than /usr/share/<emacs>/site-lisp/<package-name>. If
+ a subdirectory of /usr/share/<emacs>/site-lisp/<package-name>
+ contains uncompiled Emacs Lisp code, it may also be added to the
+ load path.
+
10) Usage of autoload instead of load in the site-start.d files.
It's been suggested, and is probably a good idea that maintainers
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