Control: severity -1 minor
On Thu, 14 May 2026 01:24:45 +0200 Gioele Barabucci <[email protected]>
wrote:
it appears that acpid 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 acpid
that use `pidof` at runtime;
* via the `Build-Depends:` field of acpid, 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 acpid, 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 acpid uses `pidof` due to the following
code snippets:
```
path: acpid_1:2.0.34-1/debian/powerbtn.sh
if pidof -x $PMS > /dev/null; then
exit
elif test "$XUSER" != "" && pidof dcopserver > /dev/null && test -x /usr/bin/dcop
&& /usr/bin/dcop --user $XUSER kded kded loadedModules | grep -q klaptopdaemon; then
exit
elif test "$XUSER" != "" && test -x /usr/bin/qdbus; then
[...]
Dear acpid maintainer,
the affected script is shipped by `acpid` just as an example in
`/usr/share/doc/acpid/examples/powerbtn.sh`.
You can probably close this bug report without further action.
In the meantime I'll downgrade the severity to minor.
--
Gioele Barabucci
