Bug#810018: Bug #810018: Consider shipping pidof with procps

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 09:17, Craig Small <csmall at debian.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 at 23:45, Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org> wrote:
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>> Now that Bookworm has shipped, what about finally finishing this and
>> getting rid of this debianism? There is really no reason to delay it
>> any longer at this point. Thank you!
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> Hi Luca,
>   I'll need the assistance of the sysvinit-utils maintainers (CC'ed) as well, as pidof will be moving from that package.  Doing this will also bring Debian (and Ubuntu) in line with most other distributions out there that use pidof from procps.
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> I'm, not going to cover sysvinit-utils moving out of Essential as it doesn't matter for procps if it is or is not.
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> So I'm looking at https://wiki.debian.org/PackageTransition
> and assuming procps is 2:4.0.4-2 and sysvinit-utils is 3.08-3
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> I would create procps 2:4.0.4-3 with pidof and Breaks: sysvinit-utils (<< 3.0.8-4) and Replaces: sysvinit-utils (<< 3.0.8-4)
> sysvinit-utils maintainers create 3.08-4 without pidof and have Breaks: procps (<< 2:4.0.4-3)
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> If everyone is in agreement with this, I'll update procps this week.

Thank you, LGTM.