Bug#476455: exiwhat of exim4-base requires killall but it does not depend on psmisc package to ensure killall is installed

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Thu Apr 17 17:36:08 UTC 2008


On 2008-04-16 Marcin Orlowski <carlos at wfmh.org.pl> wrote:
> Package: exim4-base
[...]
> exiwhat (from exim4-base package) invokes killall but to enforce its
> presence it shall depend on psmisc package that installs killall,
> but it does not do so, which causes:

> /home/carlos# exiwhat
> /usr/sbin/exiwhat: line 113: killall: command not found
> No exim process data

> manual installation of psmisc solves this issue.
[...]

exim4-base already Recommends psmisc, and since exiwhat is not a very
important part of the package I think that is enough.

cu andreas





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