Your message dated Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:18:51 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1136502: fixed in fai 6.6
has caused the Debian Bug report #1136502,
regarding fai uses pidof but does not depend on procps
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Source: fai
Version: 6.5.10
Usertags: pidof-without-procps
Dear maintainer(s) of fai,
it appears that fai 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 fai
that use `pidof` at runtime;
* via the `Build-Depends:` field of fai, 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 fai, 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 fai uses `pidof` due to the following
code snippets:
```
path: fai_6.5.6/bin/fai-setup
add_export_line $FAI_CONFIGDIR "$iprange(async,ro,no_subtree_check)"
add_export_line $NFSROOT
"$iprange(async,ro,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)"
if pidof nfsd >/dev/null
then
systemctl reload nfs-kernel-server
```
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: fai
Source-Version: 6.6
Done: Thomas Lange <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
fai, 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.
Thomas Lange <[email protected]> (supplier of updated fai package)
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:20:44 +0200
Source: fai
Architecture: source
Version: 6.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Thomas Lange <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Thomas Lange <[email protected]>
Closes: 1136502
Changes:
fai (6.6) unstable; urgency=low
.
* fai-setup: does not use pidof any more, Closes: #1136502
use reload-or-restart
* fai-cd: use GPT partition, add grub module 'read', do not include
efiboot.img twice, copy shim to BOOTx64.EFI to make xorriso happy
* do not add fai-project repo to sources.list, ship fai-project.sources
* fai-mirror: handle sources.list.d files, both old and new style format
* nfsroot.conf: add ca-certificates to debootstrap call
* mk-data-partition: add support for ISO using GPT partition, shellcheck
fixes, replace if by && or ||, do not use $?, add die() function
* fai-make-nfsroot: add ethtool to initrd
* NFSROOT: add ethtool
* use grep -s instead of redirecting stderr
* debian/control: add gdisk to Recommends
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