tag 353992 patch confirmed thanks
I'm attaching the suggested patch, which is tested to Work For Me. The more general solution is probably to use exec 1>&2, which means you can probably drop all the other redirection foo (assuming you don't somehow depend on it).
--- /tmp/xserver-xorg.postrm 2006-04-01 04:00:50.000000000 +0000 +++ /tmp/xserver-xorg.postrm2 2006-04-01 04:01:50.000000000 +0000 @@ -966,7 +966,7 @@ fi if [ "$THIS_PACKAGE" = "xserver-xorg" ]; then - update-rc.d xserver-xorg remove + update-rc.d xserver-xorg remove >&2 fi for DIR in "$CONFIG_DIR" "$CONFIG_AUX_DIR"; do