Dear procps maintainer,
dear sysvinit maintainers,
here is an update on the preparatory work for moving /usr/bin/pidof from
`sysvinit-utils` to `procps`.
The MBF asking packages to depend on procps if using pidof is pretty
much over.
Only one package with popcon >100 is still not acted upon (ifupdown2).
There are then 13 packages with a patch ready and/or waiting for an
upload, 15 bugs that should be closed as false positives (still waiting
for their maintainers to double check), and 18 packages with still open
bugs (all popcon/vote <40).
The plan at this point:
1. In a coordinated fashion (= same dinstall run) sysvinit-utils will
stop shipping pidof and procps will start shipping it instead. Patches
are ready ([1,2]) and I volunteer myself to do the NMUs, should you be
be short on time.
2. Soon after, the severity of the still open bugs will be raised to
important; to serious in 4 weeks.
3. After the upload is done, this bug can be closed and work on #85174
can resume.
Comments? Suggestions for when the coordinated upload should take place?
[1]
https://salsa.debian.org/gioele/procps/-/compare/master...pidof-enable?from_project_id=10120
[2]
https://salsa.debian.org/gioele/sysvinit/-/compare/master...pidof-remove?from_project_id=31168
Regards,
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Gioele Barabucci
