Your message dated Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:16:59 +0200 with message-id <14503957.RDIVbhacDa@grummly> and subject line Re: Bug#1136554: plasma-desktop uses pidof but does not depend on procps has caused the Debian Bug report #1136554, regarding plasma-desktop uses pidof but does not depend on procps to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: plasma-desktop Version: 4:6.6.4-1 Usertags: pidof-without-procps Dear maintainer(s) of plasma-desktop, it appears that plasma-desktop 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 plasma-desktop that use `pidof` at runtime; * via the `Build-Depends:` field of plasma-desktop, 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 plasma-desktop, 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 plasma-desktop uses `pidof` due to the following code snippets: ``` path: plasma-desktop_4:6.5.4-2/appiumtests/desktop/folderviewtest.py if __name__ == '__main__': assert subprocess.call(["pidof", "plasmashell"]) != 0, "The test requires plasmashell to quit" unittest.main() path: plasma-desktop_4:6.5.4-2/appiumtests/applets/taskmanagertest.py for _ in range(10): try: subprocess.check_call(["pidof", "plasmawindowed"]) except subprocess.CalledProcessError: break path: plasma-desktop_4:6.5.4-2/appiumtests/desktop/bug472909.py if __name__ == '__main__': assert subprocess.call(["pidof", "plasmashell"]) != 0, "The test requires plasmashell to quit" unittest.main() path: plasma-desktop_4:6.5.4-2/appiumtests/desktop/panelfocustest.py if __name__ == '__main__': assert subprocess.call(["pidof", "plasmashell"]) != 0, "The test requires plasmashell to quit" unittest.main() path: plasma-desktop_4:6.5.4-2/appiumtests/desktop/bug476968.py if __name__ == '__main__': assert subprocess.call(["pidof", "plasmashell"]) != 0, "The test requires plasmashell to quit" unittest.main() ``` 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 ---Le jeudi 14 mai 2026, 01:30:42 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Gioele Barabucci a écrit : > Dear maintainer(s) of plasma-desktop, Hi, > it appears that plasma-desktop 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. > It is believed that plasma-desktop uses `pidof` due to the following > code snippets: > > ``` > path: plasma-desktop_4:6.5.4-2/appiumtests/desktop/folderviewtest.py > if __name__ == '__main__': > assert subprocess.call(["pidof", "plasmashell"]) != 0, "The test requires > plasmashell to quit" > unittest.main() we don’t currently run appiumtests (appium not packaged in Debian) so closing. Happy hacking, -- Aurélien
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