However, I had to throw sacrificial chickens through flaming hoops to get this to work (although it's very simple when you do work out what's happening ;-). autopkgtest could be changed to remove the need for flaming hoops, chickens and sharp knives. See bug 1079358.
2) Red herring.
3) New Ubuntu Upstart release, including these changes is currently being prepared, so fixed.
Responding to my comments in #1...
1) Resolved (aka "worked around")
My lp:~jamesodhunt/ubuntu/raring/upstart/autopkgtest branch now runs both make_check and user_session tests successfully.
However, I had to throw sacrificial chickens through flaming hoops to get this to work (although it's very simple when you do work out what's happening ;-). autopkgtest could be changed to remove the need for flaming hoops, chickens and sharp knives. See bug 1079358.
2) Red herring.
3) New Ubuntu Upstart release, including these changes is currently being prepared, so fixed.
4) Red herring.