This seems not to be a bug in the upstart package - see comment #10 for the details. If the init package should get marked as essential apt will automatically install it on the next "apt-get dist-upgrade" and because init depends on "systemd-sysv | upstart-sysv" it will install one of these 2 packages which both does contain the missing files (at default systemd-sysv gets installed so you maybe want to install upstart-sysv afterwards which should also remove systemd-sysv then).
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