Your message dated Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:50:58 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1136480: fixed in cinnamon 6.6.9-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #1136480,
regarding cinnamon uses pidof but does not depend on procps
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Source: cinnamon
Version: 6.6.8-1
Usertags: pidof-without-procps
Dear maintainer(s) of cinnamon,
it appears that cinnamon 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 cinnamon
that use `pidof` at runtime;
* via the `Build-Depends:` field of cinnamon, 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 cinnamon, 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 cinnamon uses `pidof` due to the following
code snippets:
```
path: cinnamon_6.4.13-2/utils/cin-debug
pname = sys.argv[1]
pid = subprocess.check_output(["pidof", pname]).decode('utf-8')
logfile = "%s/%s-%s.log" % (home, pname,
datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%l:%M:%S"))
```
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: cinnamon
Source-Version: 6.6.9-1
Done: Fabio Fantoni <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
cinnamon, 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.
Fabio Fantoni <[email protected]> (supplier of updated cinnamon package)
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:32:25 +0200
Source: cinnamon
Built-For-Profiles: noudeb
Architecture: source
Version: 6.6.9-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Debian Cinnamon Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Fabio Fantoni <[email protected]>
Closes: 1075948 1136480 1142724
Changes:
cinnamon (6.6.9-1) unstable; urgency=high
.
* d/patches:
add looking-glass-replace-pyinotify-with-Gio.FileMonitor.patch
* Drop the python3-pyinotify dependency, use Gio.FileMonitor instead
(Closes: #1075948)
* d/control: add the missing procps dependency to cinnamon-common
(Closes: #1136480)
* d/control: add the missing libxml2-dev build dependency
* New upstream version 6.6.9 (Closes: #1142724)
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