Your message dated Fri, 15 May 2026 07:18:52 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1136605: fixed in variety 0.9.0-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #1136605,
regarding variety uses pidof but does not depend on procps
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Source: variety
Version: 0.9.0-1
Usertags: pidof-without-procps
Dear maintainer(s) of variety,
it appears that variety uses `pidof` in its testsuite, or that
at least one of its binary packages uses `pidof` at runtime.
Historically, `pidof` was provided by the Essential package
`sysvinit-tools`, making an explicit dependency unnecessary. However
`pidof` will soon be moved to `procps` and will no longer be part of
the Essential set.
Please add an explicit dependency on `procps`:
* via the `Depends:` field of all binary packages of variety
that use `pidof` at runtime;
* via the `Build-Depends:` field of variety, if `pidof` is
used in tests run at build-time;
* via the `Depends:` field of `debian/control/tests`, if `pidof` is
used in autopkgtests.
To prevent any disruption for users of variety, please add
this dependency now, before `pidof` is moved from `sysvinit-utils` to
`procps`. Alternatively, you could remove all uses of `pidof`.
It is believed that variety uses `pidof` due to the following
code snippets:
```
path: variety_0.9.0~b1-2/variety/data/scripts/set_wallpaper
# Grey background flicker is prevented by killing old swaybg process
after new one.
# See https://github.com/swaywm/swaybg/issues/17#issuecomment-851680720
PID=$(pidof swaybg)
swaybg -i "$WP" -m fill &
if [ -n "$PID" ]; then
```
Feel free to close this issue if this is a false positive (for example
if this code is in an unreachable code path).
Regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: variety
Source-Version: 0.9.0-2
Done: James Lu <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
variety, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
James Lu <[email protected]> (supplier of updated variety package)
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Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 23:51:24 -0700
Source: variety
Architecture: source
Version: 0.9.0-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: James Lu <[email protected]>
Changed-By: James Lu <[email protected]>
Closes: 1136605
Changes:
variety (0.9.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Jeremy Bícha ]
* Use gexiv2 0.16 instead of 0.10 API
.
[ James Lu ]
* Add Recommends: procps for swaybg support (Closes: #1136605)
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