On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 22:03:06 +1000 Craig Small <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 at 19:38 Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If we want pidof to be provided by a new procps-base instead of > > sysvinit-utils for buster, maybe now is the time to start uploading > > packages with that change to experimental? > > > I'd say if it is going to happen, it should happen now. >
Just wanted to say, that I had a look at the sysvinit-utils package (again) the other day and wondered whether we could move /sbin/killall5 and /sbin/fstab-decode into the (non-essential) initscripts package, as according to codesearch there aren't any users of those two binaries outside of initscripts itself (the notable exception being open-iscsi, which has native service files, so this wouldn't be a concern). The only blocker for moving /sbin/killall5 to initscripts is that /bin/pidof is currently a symlink pointing at /sbin/killall5. So if you proceed with creating such a procps-base package, we could make a follow-up upload for src:sysvinit, dropping /bin/pidof and moving /sbin/killall5 and /sbin/fstab-decode Regards, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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