Package: debhelper Version: 10.9 Severity: normal dh_installinit supports the installation of upstart job files. I think we should stop doing that, given that upstart is no longer a supported init system in Debian.
I'm a bit uncertain whether we should just rip out the code or keep it and make it conditional on the use of the debhelper compat level. Since upstart jobs are conffiles, they need to be removed manually on upgrades. I guess the best we can do is to document that maintainers need to that that themselves (e.g. via a .maintscript file)? -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii autotools-dev 20161112.1 ii binutils 2.29.1-1 ii dh-autoreconf 14 ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 0.038-1 ii dpkg 1.18.24 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24 ii file 1:5.32-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.24 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 ii perl 5.26.0-8 ii po-debconf 1.0.20 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 2.201608 -- no debconf information