espeakup under debian is screwed

[Gene Collins]

Hi Samuel.  Kirk suggesteed I write to you about this, and I'm doing so
on the list in case others incounter the same problem.

I did a dist-upgrade this morning which attempted to install a new
version of espeakup.  During the installation I got the following error.

(Reading database ... 190961 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace espeakup 3.1.3-2 (using espeakup_3.1.3-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement espeakup ...
Setting up espeakup (3.1.3-2) ...
update-rc.d: error: start|stop arguments not terminated by "."
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] [...] .
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> disable|enable [S|2|3|4|5]
		-n: not really
		-f: force

The disable|enable API is not stable and might change in the future.
dpkg: error processing espeakup (--install):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 espeakup

What does it mean that the start| stop arguments must terminate with
".", and where do I fix that?  Just for completeness, the debian .deb
file I'm installing from is espeakup_3.1.3-2_i386.deb.  I tried removing
the espeakup.postinst file from /var/lib/dpkg/info and reinstalling, but
that ddidn't help.

Thanks much.

Gene Collins