Bug#852597: iio-sensor-proxy: process keeps running after package purge

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

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On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 20:05 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> > I just purged iio-sensor-proxy, but:
> > 
> > $ ps 574
> >   PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
> >   574 ?        Ssl    4:10 /usr/sbin/iio-sensor-proxy
> > 
> > The process should stop running on removing the package.
> 
> Hmmm. The service is marked static and only operated through systemd.
> Let me check what the expectations are with a static service, and how systemd
> deals with service start/stop during package install/removal.
> 
> I've marked this report "help" because I'm not fully versed with the other
> supporting tools. If you can provide any help, that'll be nice.

So a "static" service is:

The state will usually be "enabled", "disabled", "static", or "masked". In this
context, static means that the unit file does not contain an "install" section,
which is used to enable a unit. As such, these units cannot be enabled. Usually,
this means that the unit performs a one-off action or is used only as a
dependency of another unit and should not be run by itself.


Dear Debian Systemd Team,

For a static service, upon package de-install, how do we ensure the service is
killed. Should this be done manually and individually in a package's prerm
script ?


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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
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