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Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 01:28:18 +0200
Message-ID: <a2d1e3202c7933b39c251203ee9bfccc@debian.org>
From: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@debian.org>
Subject: gvfs uses pidof but does not depend on procps
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Source: gvfs
Version: 1.60.0-1
Usertags: pidof-without-procps

Dear maintainer(s) of gvfs,

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

```
path: gvfs_1.59.90-3/test/gvfs-test
in_testbed = os.path.exists('/home/gvfs_sandbox_marker')
samba_running = subprocess.call(['pidof', 'smbd'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE) == 0
httpd_cmd = find_alternative(['apache2', 'httpd', 'apachectl'])
have_httpd = httpd_cmd is not None
```

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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