Your message dated Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:34:25 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1136493: fixed in debian-edu-config 2.13.1
has caused the Debian Bug report #1136493,
regarding debian-edu-config uses pidof but does not depend on procps
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1136493: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1136493
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Source: debian-edu-config
Version: 2.12.904
Usertags: pidof-without-procps
Dear maintainer(s) of debian-edu-config,
it appears that debian-edu-config 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 debian-edu-config
that use `pidof` at runtime;
* via the `Build-Depends:` field of debian-edu-config, 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 debian-edu-config, 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 debian-edu-config uses `pidof` due to the following
code snippets:
```
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/testsuite/ldap-server
fi
if pidof slapd > /dev/null ; then
echo "success: $0: slapd is running."
else
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/testsuite/cups
fi
if pidof cups-browsed > /dev/null ; then
echo "success: $0: cups-browsed is running."
else
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/testsuite/rdp-server
fi
if pidof xrdp > /dev/null ; then
echo "success: $0: xrdp is running."
else
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/testsuite/rdp-server
fi
if pidof xrdp-sesman > /dev/null ; then
echo "success: $0: xrdp-sesman is running."
else
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/testsuite/dhcpd
fi
if pidof dhcpd > /dev/null ; then
echo "success: $0: dhcpd is running."
else
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/testsuite/webserver
echo "success: $0: apache is running."
else
if pidof apache2 > /dev/null ; then
echo "success: $0: apache2 is running."
else
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/testsuite/webserver
unset ftp_proxy || true
if pidof apache > /dev/null ; then
echo "success: $0: apache is running."
else
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/testsuite/automount
fi
if pidof automount > /dev/null ; then
success "automount is running."
else
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/testsuite/kerberos
for process in krb5kdc kadmind ; do
if pidof $process > /dev/null ; then
echo "success: $0: $process is running."
else
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/testsuite/webcache
fi
if pidof squid > /dev/null ; then
echo "success: $0: squid is running."
else
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/share/debian-edu-config/tools/kerberos-kdc-init
## check if slapd is running:
PID=`pidof slapd || /bin/true`
if [ -z "$PID" ]; then
echo "The ldap server slapd seems not to be running. Trying to start
slapd." 1>&2
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/share/debian-edu-config/tools/kerberos-kdc-init
fi
PID=`pidof slapd || /bin/true`
if [ -z "$PID" ]; then
echo "error: the ldap server is not running. Skipping KDC setup." 1>&2
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/testsuite/samba
fi
if pidof smbd > /dev/null ; then
echo "success: $0: samba is running."
else
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/sbin/debian-edu-restart-services
;
do
if [ "$(pidof $service)" ] ; then
echo "info: '$service' still running, sending KILL."
pkill -9 $service || /bin/true
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/sbin/debian-edu-restart-services
;
do
if [ "$(pidof $service)" ] ; then
echo "info: '$service' still running, sending HUP."
pkill $service || /bin/true
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install
# Restart ldap server if we stopped it and it aint already running
SLAPPIDS=$(pidof slapd || /bin/true)
if [ true = "$RESTARTSLAPD" ] && [ -z "$SLAPPIDS" ] ; then
service slapd start
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install
LOOP=0
while [ $LOOP -lt 10 ] ; do
SLAPPIDS=$(pidof slapd || /bin/true)
if [ "$SLAPPIDS" ] ; then
LOOP=$(($LOOP + 1))
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install
fi
PID=`pidof slapd || /bin/true`
if [ -z "$PID" ]; then
echo "The LDAP server slapd seems not to be running. Trying to start
slapd." 1>&2
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install
LOOP=0
while [ $LOOP -lt 10 ] ; do
SLAPPIDS=$(pidof slapd || /bin/true)
if [ "$SLAPPIDS" ] ; then
LOOP=$(($LOOP + 1))
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install
# Make sure slapd is really stopped
SLAPPIDS=$(pidof slapd || /bin/true)
if [ "$SLAPPIDS" ] ; then
echo -n "warning: slapd is still running, trying to TERM it"
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install
dns_stop() {
# make sure to stop DNS service, to avoid hanging installer.
PID=`pidof named || /bin/true`
if [ -n "$PID" ]; then
echo "info: stopping named with pid $PID"
path: debian-edu-config_2.12.904/share/debian-edu-config/tools/edu-icinga-setup
fi
PID=$(pidof mariadbd || /bin/true)
if [ -z "$PID" ]; then
echo "error: the MariaDB server is not running. Skipping Icinga 2
setup." 1>&2
```
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: debian-edu-config
Source-Version: 2.13.1
Done: Mike Gabriel <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-edu-config, 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.
Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> (supplier of updated debian-edu-config
package)
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:18:07 +0200
Source: debian-edu-config
Architecture: source
Version: 2.13.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Edu Developers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Mike Gabriel <[email protected]>
Closes: 893394 939717 1008597 1055648 1065564 1136493
Changes:
debian-edu-config (2.13.1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Daniel Teichmann ]
* testsuite/ldap-server: Check /var/lib/ldap exists and is owned by
openldap:openldap. Regression check for Debian bug #1144741.
* debian/debian-edu-config.lintian-overrides: Fix stale reference. (Fixes
commit: 63575146)
* Drop unused wicd preconnect hook.
wicd is no longer in Debian. The hook was the only remaining wicd
integration and is not referenced anywhere else in the package.
* testsuite/hostname: escape regex dot and exit non-zero on failure.
The unescaped dot in the 'tjener.intern' grep matched any character.
Escape it so the FQDN check is exact. Both error paths now exit 1 so a
broken hostname fails the test instead of silently passing.
* share/debian-edu-config/d-i/pre-pkgsel: resolve leftover merge conflict.
* debian/control: Depend on iproute2
* testsuite/network: Stop using net-tools, use ip from iproute2 instead
* ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install: Get MAC addresses via ip link instead
of ifconfig
* share/debian-edu-config/testsuite-lib.sh: Use ss instead of netstat
* testsuite/ldap-server: Use ss instead of netstat
* debian/control: Drop Depends: net-tools
* share/debian-edu-config/d-i/pre-pkgsel: Tighten hostname= parsing and
sanitization from /proc/cmdline.
Handle hostname= as first cmdline token, ignore empty values and
strip characters invalid in hostnames.
* share/debian-edu-config/d-i/pre-pkgsel: strip hyphens only when present.
Use 's/^-+//' / 's/-+$//' instead of '-*' so the substitution only
fires when there actually is a leading/trailing hyphen to remove.
* tools/create-debian-edu-certs: Switch root CA and server key generation
to ECDSA prime256v1.
RSA with 2048 bits is the bare minimum with OpenSSL 3. Replace
'openssl genrsa' with 'openssl genpkey -algorithm EC' using the
prime256v1 (secp256r1 / NIST P-256) curve.
* tools/create-server-cert: Switch key generation to ECDSA prime256v1 and
drop keyEncipherment key usage
keyEncipherment is only meaningful for RSA keys. For ECDSA server
certificates only the digitalSignature key usage is applicable
(RFC 5480).
* v3.cnf: Drop keyEncipherment from server cert key usage
keyEncipherment is not applicable to ECDSA keys (RFC 5480), only
digitalSignature is required for TLS server certificates.
.
[ Mike Gabriel ]
* debian/control: Add to D: (debian-edu-config): procps. (Closes: #1136493).
* ldap-tools/ldap-debian-edu-install: Make sure interactions with debconf
are UTF-8 based.
This resolves GECOS field transliteration after having retrieved
debian-edu-config/first-user-fullname from the debconf db.
(Closes: #939717).
* share/debian-edu-config/d-i/pre-pkgsel: white-space cleanup
* share/debian-edu-config/d-i/pre-pkgsel: Use 'tjener' in /etc/hostname
and derive FQDN from /etc/hosts. (Closes: #893394).
* testsuite/hostname: Test that /etc/hostname on installation profile
Main-Server is set correctly
* cf3/cf.cfengine3: Stop cfengine3 service on all Debian Edu machines.
Esp. cf-execd (calling cf-agent command) clobbers the log on all Debian
Edu clients (Debian Edu 12 and onwards) and thus on syslog.intern (aka
tjener).
In Debian Edu, we use cfengine3 for managing configuration adjustments
via manual invocation of the cf-agent command, but we don't support
(yet?) to use cfengine3 for constant system management.
Partially addresses #1051834.
* sbin/debian-edu-ltsp-install: Use KERNEL_PARAMETERS variable, if we
define it
* sbin/debian-edu-ltsp-install: Fix variable interpretation in sed commands
... by using double quotes, not single quotes.
* sbin/update-hostname-from-ip: white-space cleanup
* sbin/update-hostname-from-ip: Stop using net-tools, use ip command from
iproute2 instead
* share/debian-edu-config/d-i/pre-pkgsel: Support hostname override via
/proc/cmdline. (Closes: #1008597).
.
[ Wolfgang Schweer ]
* share/debian-edu-config/d-i/pre-pkgsel: Cleanup pre-pkgsel from cruft.
(Closes: #1055648).
.
[ Serhii Horichenko ]
* ltsp: Add 'quiet splash' to hide boot details on clients.
(Closes: #1065564).
* etc/nagios3/debian-edu/commands.cfg: Add key -l for check_apt to list
packages available for upgrade.
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