Your message dated Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:48:58 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1136593: fixed in svtools 0.6-7
has caused the Debian Bug report #1136593,
regarding svtools uses pidof but does not depend on procps
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Source: svtools
Version: 0.6-6
Usertags: pidof-without-procps
Dear maintainer(s) of svtools,
it appears that svtools 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 svtools
that use `pidof` at runtime;
* via the `Build-Depends:` field of svtools, 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 svtools, 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 svtools uses `pidof` due to the following
code snippets:
```
path: svtools_0.6-6/svdir
fi
if ! SVDIR=`readlink /proc/\`pidof svscan\`/cwd`
then
if [ -d "/var/lib/svscan" ]
```
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: svtools
Source-Version: 0.6-7
Done: Alexandre Detiste <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
svtools, 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.
Alexandre Detiste <[email protected]> (supplier of updated svtools package)
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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:30:19 +0200
Source: svtools
Architecture: source
Version: 0.6-7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Alexandre Detiste <[email protected]>
Closes: 1136593
Changes:
svtools (0.6-7) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* QA upload.
* Add runtime dependency on procps for pidof (Closes: #1136593)
* Use dh-cruft to register & purge /var/log/sv
* Add debian/clean
* Add debian/salsa-ci.yml
* Drop "Rules-Requires-Root: no": it is the default now
* Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4, drop Priority: tag
* Set upstream metadata fields: Bug-Submit.
* Rename file under debian/ for future debhleper 14 compatibility
* Rewrite d/watch in v5 format
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