[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#714903: Bug#714903: masking removed but not purged SysV/LSB services

[Gergely Nagy]

Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> writes:

> Still, I think this behaviour is unfortunate.
> For once, we pointlessly spawn a shell script which simply does nothing,
> wasting CPU cycles.
> But more importantly, such services show up in systemctl output as
> "active (exited)", while they are not really active.
> This could be confusing for users.
>
> We might consider to mask such SysV/LSB services on "remove" and remove
> the mask on "purge".

I've been confused by the "active (exited)" status a few times in the
past, and the mask/unmask idea sounds good and desirable to me.

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