Hello, You may recall quite some time ago there was this bug #810018 where it was asked can procps ship pidof so that sysvinit-utils could have its Essential flag removed.
That was.. back in 2016. Is this still something that would be useful to be done? Michael put some good work in looking into what needed to be done at[1] as we needed to unload some files from sysvinit-utils and put them into procps; mainly the pidof binary and manpage. If we are going to do this, 9+ months from a freeze is a good time to do it. However, does it need to be done? If so now is probably a good time to do it. Otherwise, I can close this bug and keep pidof out of procps. - Craig 1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810018#67
