Your message dated Sun, 17 May 2026 13:18:17 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line False positive has caused the Debian Bug report #1136463, regarding 3depict uses pidof but does not depend on procps to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: 3depict Version: 0.0.23-2+b5 Usertags: pidof-without-procps Dear maintainer(s) of 3depict, it appears that 3depict 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 3depict that use `pidof` at runtime; * via the `Build-Depends:` field of 3depict, 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 3depict, 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 3depict uses `pidof` due to the following code snippets: ``` path: 3depict_0.0.23-2/test/dogtail/test.py #Check for existing 3depict instances data=subprocess.Popen(['pidof', '3Depict'],stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0] pids=data.split(' '); if not (len(pids) == 1 and len(pids[0]) == 0) : ``` 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
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--- Begin Message --- The code in question is in the UI testing suite, which is deprecated (dogtail AT-SPI was broken with wayland/gnome changes, and to my knowledge no keyboard/mouse controller with secondary screen API is available).This can safely be closed as it is not reachable in ordinary use.
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