diff -urN debian.old/rules debian/rules
--- debian.old/rules	2009-08-11 19:26:41.000000000 -0600
+++ debian/rules	2009-08-11 19:27:22.084375144 -0600
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
 	rm -f changelog && ln -s runit/package/CHANGES changelog
 	# upstart file
 	install -D -m0644 debian/runsvdir.upstart \
-	  '$(DIR)'/etc/event.d/runsvdir || exit 1;
+	  '$(DIR)'/etc/init/runsvdir.conf || exit 1;
 
 binary-indep:
 
diff -urN debian.old/runit.README.Debian debian/runit.README.Debian
--- debian.old/runit.README.Debian	2009-08-11 19:26:41.000000000 -0600
+++ debian/runit.README.Debian	2009-08-11 19:29:23.160481903 -0600
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@
 adds an entry with the name SV to /etc/inittab in order to provide runit's
 service supervision on systems running sysvinit as init scheme.
 
-On Ubuntu systems, /etc/inittab file is replaced by /etc/event.d directory,
-where you will find /etc/event.d/runsvdir file.
+On Ubuntu Karmic systems, /etc/inittab file is replaced by /etc/init directory,
+where you will find /etc/init/runsvdir.conf file. In previous versions of 
+Ubuntu, this was /etc/event.d and /etc/event.d/runsvdir respectively.
 
 The package does not replace the /sbin/init program, and so does not
 enable runit to run as process no 1.  To do so, you need to follow the