Hum that's odd…
config.status: error: cannot find input file: `po/Makefile.in.in'
Normally this file should be copied over by `glib-gettextize` I think. I see 2 possible reasons: * We depend on something newer than what you have, but don't advertize it (I doubt it, because AFAIK we didn't touch this area since 2010 or so) * The Debian package doesn't call our *autogen* script and doesn't call *glib-gettextize*, nor any other tool that would crate this file (*autopoint*, *intltool* or *gettextize* maybe), possibly because newer versions of some tool (*autoreconf* or *dh_autoreconf*) do that automatically now.
A quick and dirty solution could be calling our autogen script, not sure (beware that AFAIK *dh_autoreconf* does extra magic). Or calling the appropriate tool explicitly.