upstart - event-based init daemon has been removed from debian and is currently only present in oldstable.
Many packages however still ship upstart integration. Please consider removing /etc/init/* conffiles from your packages. Do note, that typically this will require a debian/pkg.maintscript snippet to rm_conffile these files. For straight forwarded cases where simply debian/*.upstart files exist, this can be resolved using this script: ---- 8< ---- #!/bin/bash set -e set -x drop_upstart() { ver=$1 pkg=$2 job=$2 if [ -n "$4" ] then job=$3 fi echo "rm_conffile /etc/init/$job.conf $ver~ $pkg" >> $pkg.maintscript } dch -i 'Drop upstart system jobs.' ver=$(parsechangelog | sed -n 's/Version: //p') pushd debian for f in *.upstart do drop_upstart $ver $(echo $f | sed 's/\./ /g') rm $f done popd ---- 8< ---- or something similar. 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