Re: users shouldn't be responsible for being the first to tell each package maintainer "update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults"

[jidanni@jidanni.org]

I also filed http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733156
as a wild guess.

Anyway what needs to be done is
for(all debian packages){
  if(a new version of this package was released && that version would
  make the above such message appear upon the user's screen upon
  installation){
     file a bug against that package "Dear maintainer, unless you fix
     this, any further releases will startle users with ... message upon
     installation. Yours Truly, Debian Leadership Team."}}

as I don't think all maintainers use lintian / piuparts etc.