Source: plume-creator
Version: 0.67+git20151203.1081b12-1.1
Usertags: pidof-without-procps

Dear maintainer(s) of plume-creator,

it appears that plume-creator 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 plume-creator
  that use `pidof` at runtime;
* via the `Build-Depends:` field of plume-creator, 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 plume-creator, 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 plume-creator uses `pidof` due to the following
code snippets:

```
path: plume-creator_0.67+git20151203.1081b12-1/src/main.cpp
        // Checking the current Desktop Environment on Linux :
        QString program = "/bin/pidof";
        QStringList arguments;
        arguments << "ksmserver";
```

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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