Bug#810018: procps: Please (re)consider shipping procps pidof

[Andrew Bower]

Sub-thread aimed at easing and accelerating the transition:

On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 10:47:55PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> 4. Inside a single dinstall window, a modified version of `sysvinit-tools`
> (without `pidof`) and a modified version of `procps` (with `pidof`) will be
> uploaded. (WIP patches can be found at [4] and [5].)

Symlinks are cheap and dh_installalternatives is easy to use.

How about bringing a modified version of step 4 forward to steps 0a and
0b?

0a) We could immediately upload sysvinit-utils with pidof renamed to
    /usr/bin/pidof.sysvinit with an alternative of priority 40.

0b) Then we could upload procps with pidof provided as
    /usr/bin/pidof.procps with an alternative of priority 80 and an
    appropriate versioned Breaks clause.

Then we could more quickly smoke out possible issues and make it easier
for people to play with both tools in parallel.