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

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Thu Apr 17 21:51:53 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:53:43PM +0200, Marcin Orlowski wrote:
> 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

The most we're gonna do is patch exiwhat to give a more verbose
message along the lines "exiwhat can only work if the psmisc package
is installed".

Greetings
Marc

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