Bug#909027: Leaves daemons running after purge

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:47 PM Steve McIntyre <steve at einval.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 05:23:53PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >Package: gvfsd-metadata
> >Version: 1.30.4-1
> >Severity: serious
> >
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >I appear to have had some of the gvfs packages installed by accident
> >on my machine, I guess through dependencies. I noticed this a few days
> >ago and purged them all. I saw no errors when I did that. I noticed
> >again today that I still have gvfs programs running. This is clearly
> >not right. To verify, I've just reinstalled gvfs-daemons and purged it
> >again. I still have things running:

Steve, thank you for filing this bug. However, it doesn't look
release-critical to me since I don't think Debian Policy says anywhere
that daemons or services must be stopped on package removal. For
instance, Firefox or any app keeps running after you remove it. Many
GNOME apps now are D-Bus-activated and keep running in the background
even though they may not appear to be running unless someone looks
closely.

The gvfs daemon are system user services. These services keep running
after removal; another example is gpg-agent. All you need to do is log
out for the services to be stopped.

Maybe, this ends up being a duplicate of
https://bugs.debian.org/764678 or maybe it needs a new bug not in
gvfs. Or maybe we don't even need to change the behavior here.

But we have others on the Debian GNOME team that know a lot more about
dbus and systemd than I do.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha