open-vm-tools install update-rc.d failure

upgraded from 13.10 to test 14.04 using do-release-upgrade -d

upon upgrade, it seems that the upgrade for open-vm-tools failed with the following message.

Setting up open-vm-tools (2:9.4.0-1280544-5) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
update-rc.d: error: expected NN after start
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 package open-vm-tools (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu3) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-4-generic
Errors were encountered while processing:
 open-vm-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

upon googling,

it looks like the installation script needs to be cleaned up so that this installs cleanly.

it looks like the following is the line(s) that need to be fixed.

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/open-vm-tools/trusty/view/head:/debian/rules#L67

it should be

 dh_installinit --update-rcd-params='start 38 2 3 4 5 . stop 38 0 1 6 .'

see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651031 for a report of a similar bug for a different package.

if this is not fixed, this could lead to issues with running 14.04 VMs properly with VMware.

since this should be a pretty easy fix, i'm requesting that this be fixed prior to 14.04 release especially given 14.04 is LTS. thanks.