[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] procps with pidof is released

[Roger Leigh]

On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 09:43:33AM +1100, Craig Small wrote:
> Hi,
>   procps 3.3.9 which contains the new pidof has been released upstream.
> This will mean that it will shortly disappear from sysvinit I guess.
> 
> I can see that 2.88dsf-43 is the current version. Is this the one
> I should be targeting for the Breaks: line?
> 
> I suspect that it will go something like
> procps-base 3.3.9-1 releases with Breaks: sysvinit-utils <= 2.88dsf-43
>   It will also be Essential: Yes
> sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-44 comes out with no pidof
> 
> Does that make sense? I'd like to get this done the next few days.

That sounds fine, I think.  So on the sysvinit-utils side, we simply
drop pidof?  Will procps-base be guaranteed to be installed via
upgrade?  I imagine we'll have to also have a depends on
procps-base >= 3.3.9-1 to ensure pidof is available at all times
during the upgrade?  To ensure proper upgrade ordering, should the
procps-base Breaks also be a Conflicts?  (I mean, we want to avoid
a window where any other packages/maintainer scripts need to use
pidof but sysvinit-utils is upgraded but the new procps-base is not
yet unpacked)

Just to double-check: the new pidof is completely compatible with
the old?


Thanks,
Roger

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