diff --git a/config/init/upstart/lxc-instance.conf b/config/init/upstart/lxc-instance.conf
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index 1c9c3e60a0..0000000000
--- a/config/init/upstart/lxc-instance.conf
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@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-description "lxc instance"
-author "Christian Kampka <chris@emerge-life.de>"
-
-stop on stopping lxc
-
-# wait for 120 seconds for container to shutdown before killing it
-kill timeout 120
-
-# send SIGPWR to container to trigger a shutdown (see lxc-shutdown(1))
-kill signal SIGPWR
-
-
-instance $NAME
-usage "NAME=name of LXC instance"
-
-pre-start script
-	lxc-wait -s RUNNING -n $NAME -t 0 && { stop; exit 0; } || true
-end script
-
-exec lxc-start -F -n $NAME
diff --git a/config/init/upstart/lxc-net.conf.in b/config/init/upstart/lxc-net.conf.in
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index 71c549994a..0000000000
--- a/config/init/upstart/lxc-net.conf.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-description "lxc network"
-author "Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>"
-
-start on starting lxc
-stop on stopped lxc
-
-pre-start exec @LIBEXECDIR@/lxc/lxc-net start
-post-stop exec @LIBEXECDIR@/lxc/lxc-net stop
diff --git a/config/init/upstart/lxc.conf.in b/config/init/upstart/lxc.conf.in
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index 3bdfdf718c..0000000000
--- a/config/init/upstart/lxc.conf.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-description "lxc"
-author "Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>"
-
-start on runlevel [2345]
-stop on starting rc RUNLEVEL=[016]
-
-env LXC_AUTO="false"
-
-# These can be overridden in /etc/default/lxc
-
-# BOOTGROUPS - What groups should start on bootup?
-#	Comma separated list of groups.
-#	Leading comma, trailing comma or embedded double
-#	comma indicates when the NULL group should be run.
-# Example (default): boot the onboot group first then the NULL group
-env BOOTGROUPS="onboot,"
-
-# SHUTDOWNDELAY - Wait time for a container to shut down.
-#	Container shutdown can result in lengthy system
-#	shutdown times.  Even 5 seconds per container can be
-#	too long.
-env SHUTDOWNDELAY=5
-
-# OPTIONS can be used for anything else.
-#	If you want to boot everything then
-#	options can be "-a" or "-a -A".
-env OPTIONS=
-
-# STOPOPTS are stop options.  The can be used for anything else to stop.
-#	If you want to kill containers fast, use -k
-env STOPOPTS="-a -A -s"
-
-pre-start script
-	[ -f /etc/default/lxc ] && . /etc/default/lxc
-
-	# don't load profiles if mount mediation is not supported
-	SYSF=/sys/kernel/security/apparmor/features/mount/mask
-	if [ -f $SYSF ]; then
-		if [ -x /lib/apparmor/profile-load ]; then
-			/lib/apparmor/profile-load usr.bin.lxc-start
-			/lib/apparmor/profile-load lxc-containers
-		elif [ -x /lib/init/apparmor-profile-load ]; then
-			/lib/init/apparmor-profile-load usr.bin.lxc-start
-			/lib/init/apparmor-profile-load lxc-containers
-		fi
-	fi
-
-	[ "x$LXC_AUTO" = "xtrue" ] || exit 0
-
-	if [ -n "$BOOTGROUPS" ]
-	then
-		BOOTGROUPS="-g $BOOTGROUPS"
-	fi
-
-	# Process the "onboot" group first then the NULL group.
-	lxc-autostart -L $OPTIONS $BOOTGROUPS | while read line; do
-		set -- $line
-		(start lxc-instance NAME=$1 && sleep $2) || true
-	done
-end script
-
-# The stop is serialized and can take excessive time.  We need to avoid
-# delaying the system shutdown / reboot as much as we can since it's not
-# parallelized...  Even 5 second timeout may be too long.
-post-stop script
-	[ -f /etc/default/lxc ] && . /etc/default/lxc
-
-	if [ -n "$SHUTDOWNDELAY" ]
-	then
-		SHUTDOWNDELAY="-t $SHUTDOWNDELAY"
-	fi
-
-	lxc-autostart $STOPOPTS $SHUTDOWNDELAY || true
-end script
diff --git a/config/init/upstart/meson.build b/config/init/upstart/meson.build
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index b0afc0b21b..0000000000
--- a/config/init/upstart/meson.build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
-
-if 'upstart' in init_script
-    configure_file(
-        configuration: conf,
-        input: 'lxc.conf.in',
-        output: 'lxc.conf',
-        install: true,
-        install_dir: join_paths(sysconfdir, 'init'))
-
-    configure_file(
-        configuration: conf,
-        input: 'lxc-instance.conf',
-        output: 'lxc-instance.conf',
-        install: true,
-        install_dir: join_paths(sysconfdir, 'init'))
-
-    configure_file(
-        configuration: conf,
-        input: 'lxc-net.conf.in',
-        output: 'lxc-net.conf',
-        install: true,
-        install_dir: join_paths(sysconfdir, 'init'))
-endif