Control: tags -1 patch
On Thu, 14 May 2026 01:29:33 +0200 Gioele Barabucci <[email protected]>
wrote:
it appears that nfs-ganesha 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 nfs-ganesha
that use `pidof` at runtime;
* via the `Build-Depends:` field of nfs-ganesha, 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 nfs-ganesha, 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 nfs-ganesha uses `pidof` due to the following
code snippets:
```
path: nfs-ganesha_7.0-2/src/scripts/ganesha-top/ganesha-top.py
def get_ganesha_pid():
try:
return int(subprocess.run(["pidof", "-s", GaneshaProcess],
stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout)
except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
```
Dear maintainer of nfs-ganesha,
ganesha-top requires pidof to detect the presence of the Ganesha
server. Thus the python3-nfs-ganesha package must depend on procps.
You can find a MR with a fix for this issue at
<https://salsa.debian.org/debian/nfs-ganesha/-/merge_requests/9>.
Regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
