Your message dated Sat, 23 May 2026 12:18:36 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1136595: fixed in systemd 261~rc1-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #1136595,
regarding systemd uses pidof but does not depend on procps
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1136595: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1136595
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Source: systemd
Version: 260.1-1
Usertags: pidof-without-procps
Dear maintainer(s) of systemd,
it appears that systemd 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 systemd
that use `pidof` at runtime;
* via the `Build-Depends:` field of systemd, 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 systemd, 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 systemd uses `pidof` due to the following
code snippets:
```
path: systemd_260~rc2-1/debian/tests/boot-and-services
def test_cron(self):
pid = subprocess.check_output(['pidof', 'cron'],
universal_newlines=True).strip()
out = subprocess.check_output(['ps', 'u', pid], universal_newlines=True)
self.assertIn('root', out)
path: systemd_260~rc2-1/debian/tests/boot-and-services
'Forwarding to rsyslog is a Debian patch')
def test_rsyslog(self):
pid = subprocess.check_output(['pidof', 'rsyslogd'],
universal_newlines=True).strip()
out = subprocess.check_output(['ps', 'u', pid], universal_newlines=True)
self.assertIn('bin/rsyslogd', out)
path: systemd_260~rc2-1/debian/tests/boot-smoke
echo "checking that NetworkManager runs"
pidof NetworkManager || fail "NetworkManager was not running"
fi
path: systemd_260~rc2-1/debian/tests/logind
shutdown -c || true
# logind should still be running
P=$(pidof systemd-logind)
[ "$P" = "$LOGINDPID" ] || { echo "logind crashed" >&2; exit 1; }
path: systemd_260~rc2-1/debian/tests/logind
echo " * daemon is started"
# should start at boot, not with D-BUS activation
LOGINDPID=$(pidof systemd-logind)
# loginctl should succeed
path: systemd_260~rc2-1/debian/tests/logind
evemu-event $LID_DEV --sync --type 5 --code 0 --value 0
P=$(pidof systemd-logind)
[ "$P" = "$LOGINDPID" ] || { echo "logind crashed" >&2; exit 1; }
}
path: systemd_260~rc2-1/debian/tests/logind
sleep 5
shutdown -c --no-wall || true
P=$(pidof systemd-logind)
[ "$P" = "$LOGINDPID" ] || { echo "logind crashed" >&2; exit 1; }
}
```
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: systemd
Source-Version: 261~rc1-1
Done: Luca Boccassi <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
systemd, 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.
Luca Boccassi <[email protected]> (supplier of updated systemd package)
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Date: Sat, 23 May 2026 12:02:22 +0100
Source: systemd
Architecture: source
Version: 261~rc1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian systemd Maintainers
<[email protected]>
Changed-By: Luca Boccassi <[email protected]>
Closes: 1136595
Changes:
systemd (261~rc1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Luca Boccassi ]
* d/t/control: pull libfdisk-dev for test suites. It will be a dlopen
library soon
* d/t/control: pull libmicrohttpd-dev for unit-tests suite. It will be a
dlopen library soon
* autopkgtest: add dependency on procps (Closes: #1136595)
* Conflict with sysuser-helper. Incompatible implementation specific for
runit, make the systemd package conflict with it to ensure it's never
installed in the default setup
* Downgrade dependency on dbus to recommends in sd-container. This
package is useful in the initrd, and dbus is no longer a hard
requirement for nspawn
* Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/261_rc1' Update to upstream
version '261~rc1' with Debian dir
dab9908c937b5e70158151b2bbec44d40817023e
* Bump Standards-version to 4.7.4, no changes
* Install new files for upstream release
* Backport patch to fix unit test in gitlab CI
* Update symbols file for new version
* Backport patch to skip test-pressure in autopkgtest
* Force linking against libm. Programs linking against libsystemd0.so
crash due to libm ifunc shenanigans when the linking was removed, so
force it back. This makes every binary link against libm rather than
just libsystemd.so.
.
[ Nick Rosbrook ]
* d/t/boot-and-services: use coreutils tunable in apparmor test (LP:
#2125614)
.
[ Alexandre Detiste ]
* use dh-cruft to register & purge volatile files
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