Debian maintainers,

Might you consider increasing the severity somewhat. I have a virtualized instance of sid on which the package will not update, leaving the system in a precarious state. The work-arounds are easy, but so is fixing the package.

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Preparing to replace ebtables 2.0.10.4-1 (using .../ebtables_2.0.10.4-2_amd64.deb) ...
[ ok ] Clearing ebtables rulesets: filter nat broute done.
Unpacking replacement ebtables ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up ebtables (2.0.10.4-2) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/ebtables ...
update-rc.d: error: expected runlevel [0-9S] (did you forget "." ?)
usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | SS KK]
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] .
                -n: not really
                -f: force
dpkg: error processing ebtables (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ebtables

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