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I wonder how long upstart will survive in Ubuntu after the next Debian stable

Probably a while, Ubuntu isn't too prone to changing things just because Debian (upstream) decided to do something.

Do you think ubuntu will be hiring package maintainers to rewrite all the init scripts so it can continue importing debian packages into universe?

But they already do. I'm not sure where the big change is.

Having Debian switch to systemd by default has no bearing on the preferred init system in Ubuntu.