> OK, so what's _wrong_ with it?

It's a pain in the butt to write an install script that reliably puts
the startup code for your package in the right part of /etc/rc.local.
Actually, it's probably impossible.   The problem being that
/etc/rc.local is partially human-hacked and partially machine-hacked.

However, /etc/init.d just makes things really easy for the machine in
some ways, fails to solve the ordering problem, and makes things
really unpleasant for humans.

			       _MelloN_