It's not so much about maintaining upstart as it is about maintaining upstart support in every daemon, and making sure the boot sequence continues to function well, etc. That's completely wasted effort, and the only reason we made sure it continued functioning up until Xenial was to make sure that upgrades could run smoothly.
Putting alternate init systems in universe without also committing to support them would be naive at best, actively harmful to users, at worst. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to upstart in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1585589 Title: drop upstart-sysv Status in upstart package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I'm using Ubuntu 16.10 dev with init 1.33ubuntu2 and I'm noticing that it does now pre-depend on "systemd-sysv" instead of "systemd-sysv | upstart-sysv". Since init is essential and upstart-sysv conflicts with systemd-sysv this means it is not possible to install Upstart in a sane way anymore. In case Upstart is not supported anymore maybe all related packages should be removed from the yakkety repository then (since Upstart can't be installed anymore with apt for the reasons above) to avoid confusion. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/1585589/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
