[debhelper-devel] Bug#876453: Remove support for upstart jobs from dh_installinit

[Michael Biebl]

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

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