On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 at 10:20, Gioele Barabucci <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:03:57 +0000 Mark Hindley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Really? Pidof is used in some maintainer scripts. See dbus[1], for example. > > Surely pidof remains Essential until all such usages are identified > > Hi, here is a list of packages using pidof in their maintscripts (last > updated in 2024): > > https://salsa.debian.org/-/snippets/621 > > Andreas (ah) and I started removing pidof from maintscripts in 2022, but > we did not complete the removal. I think pidof can be replaced with > something else in most maintscripts. After that there will be perhaps > half a dozen of packages left whose maintscripts really really need pidof.
Every affected package has now patches or MRs posted to solve the problem, links in the salsa snippet. > > and Depends: whatever-pidof-provider added? > > Pre-Depends, not Depends. A discussion on d-devel@ will be needed. As far as I can see nothing is left that needs pre-depends, after the patches linked in the snippet above will be applied.
