un-ups your start

We do not need upstart, it is so thoroughly obsolete that we should not
care about supporting it.

Change-Id: Ie0ca084740845555fddffacc899cd129c9a4c1fe

Makefile

@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ makefiles = \
   misc/fish/local.mk \
   misc/zsh/local.mk \
   misc/systemd/local.mk \
-  misc/launchd/local.mk \
-  misc/upstart/local.mk
+  misc/launchd/local.mk
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(ENABLE_BUILD)_$(ENABLE_TESTS), yes_yes)

doc/manual/rl-next/upstart-removal.md

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+synopsis: Upstart scripts removed
+# prs: cl 574
+---
+
+Upstart scripts have been removed from Lix, since Upstart is obsolete and has
+not been shipped by any major distributions for many years. If these are
+necessary to your use case, please back port them to your packaging.

misc/upstart/local.mk

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-ifdef HOST_LINUX
-
-  $(foreach n, nix-daemon.conf, $(eval $(call install-file-in, $(d)/$(n), $(sysconfdir)/init, 0644)))
-
-  clean-files += $(d)/nix-daemon.conf
-
-endif

misc/upstart/nix-daemon.conf.in

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-description "Nix Daemon"
-start on filesystem
-stop on shutdown
-respawn
-exec @bindir@/nix-daemon --daemon