Source: quota Version: 4.09-1+b2 Usertags: pidof-without-procps Dear maintainer(s) of quota,
it appears that quota 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 quota that use `pidof` at runtime; * via the `Build-Depends:` field of quota, 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 quota, 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 quota uses `pidof` due to the following code snippets: ``` path: quota_4.09-1/debian/quotarpc.sh pidp=`pidof portmap` pidr=`pidof rpcbind` set -e ``` 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
