Control: severity -1 minor
On Thu, 14 May 2026 01:33:16 +0200 Gioele Barabucci <[email protected]>
wrote:
it appears that tiup 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 tiup
that use `pidof` at runtime;
* via the `Build-Depends:` field of tiup, 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 tiup, 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 tiup uses `pidof` due to the following
code snippets:
```
path: tiup_1.16.4-1/embed/templates/systemd/system.service.tpl
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c '{{.DeployDir}}/scripts/run_{{.ServiceName}}.sh'
{{- if eq .ServiceName "prometheus"}}
ExecReload=/bin/bash -c 'kill -HUP $MAINPID $(pidof
{{.DeployDir}}/bin/ng-monitoring-server)'
{{end}}
```
Dear tiup maintainer(s),
neither the systemd service template that uses `pidof`, nor an
instatiation of it seems to be shipped in the `tiup` package.
Therefore you can probably close this bug without further action.
In the meantime I'll downgrade it severity to minor.
Regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
