do package updates automatically kill running exes?

[Andrew Schulman]

> > 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.