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Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 01:25:48 +0200
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From: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@debian.org>
Subject: clamav uses pidof but does not depend on procps
X-Debian-User: gioele
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Source: clamav
Version: 1.4.4+dfsg-1
Usertags: pidof-without-procps

Dear maintainer(s) of clamav,

it appears that clamav 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 clamav
  that use `pidof` at runtime;
* via the `Build-Depends:` field of clamav, 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 clamav, 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 clamav uses `pidof` due to the following
code snippets:

```
path: clamav_1.4.3+dfsg-2/debian/tests/milter
DAEMON=clamav-milter
if pidof -x $DAEMON > /dev/null; then
    echo "OK"
else


path: clamav_1.4.3+dfsg-2/debian/tests/clamd
invoke-rc.d clamav-daemon start > /dev/null 2>&1
if pidof -x $DAEMON > /dev/null; then
    echo "OK"
else
```

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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