Comment 3 for bug 67030

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

Not true,

It's entirely legimate to install the upstart init daemon and then construct your own events in /etc/event.d without taking those provided by the distribution.

That's why the dependency is a "Recommends", it would be unusual for them not to be installed, but it is permitted in a strict packaging sense.

Of course, you don't have a supported Ubuntu machine, but then you don't anyway because you've clearly removed the "ubuntu-minimal" package which absolutely _depends_ on them as you suggest