Bug #810018: Consider shipping pidof with procps

[Craig Small]

Hello,
 You may recall quite some time ago there was this bug #810018 where it was
asked can procps ship pidof so that sysvinit-utils could have its Essential
flag removed.

That was.. back in 2016.  Is this still something that would be useful to
be done?

Michael put some good work in looking into what needed to be done at[1] as
we needed to unload some files from sysvinit-utils and put them into
procps; mainly the pidof binary and manpage.

If we are going to do this, 9+ months from a freeze is a good time to do
it. However, does it need to be done? If so now is probably a good time to
do it.

Otherwise, I can close this bug and keep pidof out of procps.

 - Craig

1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810018#67
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