diff -Nru thermald-1.7.0/debian/changelog thermald-1.7.0/debian/changelog
--- thermald-1.7.0/debian/changelog	2017-10-20 20:44:14.000000000 +0000
+++ thermald-1.7.0/debian/changelog	2017-12-11 18:25:11.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+thermald (1.7.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Bryan Quigley ]
+  * Remove upstart support
+
+  [ Colin King ]
+  * Update Standards-Version to  4.1.2
+
+ -- Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>  Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:25:11 +0000
+
 thermald (1.7.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * sync with latest upstream release 1.7
@@ -300,7 +310,7 @@
   * Fix Kclockwork issue: gettext bounds
   * Fix klockworks issue with strcasecmp NULL param
   * Fix klockworks double free complaints
-  * Don't skip the current cdev 
+  * Don't skip the current cdev
   * Fix klocworks issue with memleak
 
  -- Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>  Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:55:11 +0000
diff -Nru thermald-1.7.0/debian/control thermald-1.7.0/debian/control
--- thermald-1.7.0/debian/control	2017-10-20 20:47:07.000000000 +0000
+++ thermald-1.7.0/debian/control	2017-12-11 18:25:11.000000000 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Section: admin
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
-Standards-Version: 4.1.1
+Standards-Version: 4.1.2
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20160709), dh-autoreconf, quilt, autoconf, libglib2.0-dev, libdbus-1-dev, libdbus-glib-1-dev, libxml2-dev
 Homepage: https://github.com/01org/thermal_daemon
 
diff -Nru thermald-1.7.0/debian/patches/0001-Remove-upstart-support.patch thermald-1.7.0/debian/patches/0001-Remove-upstart-support.patch
--- thermald-1.7.0/debian/patches/0001-Remove-upstart-support.patch	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ thermald-1.7.0/debian/patches/0001-Remove-upstart-support.patch	2017-12-11 18:25:11.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+From 43b7a7ba0043739ae13ade79bea94c6f32dca3bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Bryan Quigley <bryan.quigley@canonical.com>
+Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 23:31:46 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] Remove upstart support
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Removes upstart conf file and notes about using it
+---
+ README.txt         |  6 +-----
+ data/Makefile.am   |  6 +-----
+ data/thermald.conf | 22 ----------------------
+ 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
+ delete mode 100644 data/thermald.conf
+
+diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
+index fabf5ab..dccf49a 100644
+--- a/README.txt
++++ b/README.txt
+@@ -64,12 +64,8 @@ Build
+ 	make
+ 	sudo make install
+ (It will give error for systemd configuration, but ignore)
+-cp data/thermald.conf /etc/init/
+-3.
+-If using upstart
+-	Use "sudo start thermald" to start
+-	Use "sudo stop thermald" to stop
+ 
++3.
+ If using systemd, use
+ - start service
+ 	sudo systemctl start thermald.service
+diff --git a/data/Makefile.am b/data/Makefile.am
+index c441664..d18b09e 100644
+--- a/data/Makefile.am
++++ b/data/Makefile.am
+@@ -28,14 +28,10 @@ tdconfigdir = $(tdconfdir)
+ tdconfig_DATA = thermal-conf.xml \
+ 	thermal-cpu-cdev-order.xml
+ 
+-upstartconfdir = /etc/init
+-upstartconf_DATA = thermald.conf
+-
+ EXTRA_DIST = \
+ 	thermald.service.in \
+ 	org.freedesktop.thermald.service.in \
+ 	$(dbusservice_DATA) \
+-	$(tdconfig_DATA) \
+-	$(upstartconf_DATA)
++	$(tdconfig_DATA)
+ 
+ CLEANFILES = thermald.service org.freedesktop.thermald.service
+diff --git a/data/thermald.conf b/data/thermald.conf
+deleted file mode 100644
+index 39a646a..0000000
+--- a/data/thermald.conf
++++ /dev/null
+@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
+-# thermald - thermal daemon
+-# Upstart configuration file
+-# Manages platform thermals
+-
+-description	"thermal daemon"
+-
+-start on runlevel [2345] and started dbus
+-stop on stopping dbus
+-
+-#
+-# don't respawn on error
+-#
+-normal exit 1
+-
+-respawn
+-
+-#
+-# consider something wrong if respawned 10 times in 1 minute
+-#
+-respawn limit 10 60
+-
+-exec thermald --no-daemon --dbus-enable
+-- 
+2.14.1
+
diff -Nru thermald-1.7.0/debian/patches/series thermald-1.7.0/debian/patches/series
--- thermald-1.7.0/debian/patches/series	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ thermald-1.7.0/debian/patches/series	2017-12-11 18:25:11.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0001-Remove-upstart-support.patch