Vivid init system bug status

[Martin Packman]

On 17/04/2015, Martin Packman <martin.packman at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> I have put up a merge proposal making the error handling robust across
> go versions, and removing the map interation confusion:
>
> <https://github.com/juju/juju/pull/2094>
>
> This should be on the 1.23 branch shortly.

Well, this was all a bit of a disaster.

That fix resolves the case where upstart is not installed (a fresh
vivid system), but breaks the case where upstart is installed but not
enabled (an upgraded vivid system):

<https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju-core/+bug/1447446>

Eric has proposed a branch with a bunch more changes, but I'm not
really happy with unit tests that rely on the state of the underlying
system to cover all the cases we care about.

Martin