From gioele at debian.org Mon Nov 2 22:47:10 2026 From: gioele at debian.org (Gioele Barabucci) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 23:47:10 +0100 Subject: Bug#810018: procps: Please (re)consider shipping procps pidof In-Reply-To: References: <20160105162152.19631.26341.reportbug@mbpah.endian.se> Message-ID: <2145f6e6-fd98-4525-9e93-2ac1583eada8@debian.org> Dear procps maintainer, dear sysvinit maintainers, here is an update on the preparatory work for moving /usr/bin/pidof from `sysvinit-utils` to `procps`. The MBF asking packages to depend on procps if using pidof is pretty much over. Only one package with popcon >100 is still not acted upon (ifupdown2). There are then 13 packages with a patch ready and/or waiting for an upload, 15 bugs that should be closed as false positives (still waiting for their maintainers to double check), and 18 packages with still open bugs (all popcon/vote <40). The plan at this point: 1. In a coordinated fashion (= same dinstall run) sysvinit-utils will stop shipping pidof and procps will start shipping it instead. Patches are ready ([1,2]) and I volunteer myself to do the NMUs, should you be be short on time. 2. Soon after, the severity of the still open bugs will be raised to important; to serious in 4 weeks. 3. After the upload is done, this bug can be closed and work on #85174 can resume. Comments? Suggestions for when the coordinated upload should take place? [1] https://salsa.debian.org/gioele/procps/-/compare/master...pidof-enable?from_project_id=10120 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/gioele/sysvinit/-/compare/master...pidof-remove?from_project_id=31168 Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci