[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] pidof moving from sysvutils to procps

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Steve Langasek]
> Please inform debian-devel of this change as well so the impact can
> be discussed more widely.

Yeah.

> I know that I for one have chroots where sysvinit-utils is installed
> as a transitively essential package, and procps is not.  I don't
> know if pidof is actually going to be a problem for anyone in this
> regard, but I don't know that it *won't* be - so we should get some
> more eyeballs on this change.

I guess the safe approach to implement this change is to make
sysvinit-utils depend on procps while we try to figure out every
package using pidof. :) Not a very attractive scenario, but at least
scripts should keep working.

A archive wide grep for pidof should not be too hard to do, and would
provide a upper limit on the number of packages that would need to get
their dependencies updated.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen