do package updates automatically kill running exes?

[Jon TURNEY]

On 13/08/2015 20:02, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>> Anyway, that answers my question.  If I want to be sure a process from one of my
>>> packages exits, I need to put a killall into its preremove script.
>>
>> I've put a "pkill ." in all scripts that run setup (with the requisite
>> are you sure? y/N).
>
> Ugh, both psmisc (killall) and procps (pkill) aren't in base, so both of
> those may fail.

What problem are you trying to solve here?

IMHO you should not kill a process without user confirmation, and there 
is (currently) no way your preremove script to do that.