<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 at 06:51, Gioele Barabucci <<a href="mailto:gioele@svario.it">gioele@svario.it</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
while we try to reach consensus in #1131136 on the best way to remove <br>
the Essential bit from `sysvinit-utils`, I think we can focus on a <br>
simpler task: moving `pidof` from `sysvinit-utils` to `procps`.<br></blockquote><div>I thought the Essential part had to happen before the switch the pidof part.</div><div>Looking at this plan, it seems this part could be done first.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
* No maintainer script uses `pidof` anymore (the 4 low-popcon remaining <br>
packages will be NMU'd soon; patches ready).<br></blockquote><div>OK, when I checked a few months ago there were quite a lot. Most of them should have been using pidofproc but they were present.</div><div>That means a lot of maintainer scripts changed recently.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
* The code snippets where pidof is used in these 94 packages can be <br>
inspected at [1].<br></blockquote><div>They're reasonably simple calls here.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
* Both implementations of `pidof` support these options, with the same <br>
semantics/output.<br></blockquote><div>Agreed, I think -z is the main difference now. I'm not 100% if that option is useful anymore.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
The plan:<br></blockquote><div> That seems ok to me (procps maintainer).</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Does this sound right? Is anything missing?<br></blockquote><div>It does sound right, but I have a nagging feeling something is missed.</div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"> - Craig</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div></div>