On Thu, 7 May 2026 at 14:08, Mark Hindley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Craig, > > Thanks for this. > > I think there is another route to achieving something similar: procps could > employ dpkg-divert(1) to avoid a file conflict on /usr/bin/pidof with > sysvinit-utils with sysvinit-utils still continuing to ship its own > implementation.
No, that is not desirable, as the point is to make procps' the canonical implementation, like it is in the rest of the world. So it's the other way around, sysvutils can use maintainer scripts and diversions to ships its own implementation as an alternative for those who want it.
