Comment 2 for bug 603285

The job itself looks OK, although I have a few related questions:

Shouldn't you be using dh_installinit to install the job and deal with migrating the old conffile? Simply dropping the new job in place and removing the call to dh_installinit is generally not the correct thing to do.

The old init script has a few specialised warts that you don't seem to have preserved. Obviously a lot of it goes away with Upstart, but I think the inetd.conf check (even though it's clunky) is probably worth preserving. What about the ntp-wait gubbins? I can't think of an easy way to do "start on started ntpd but only if it's installed" in Upstart, so you may have to preserve that too for the moment.