[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#810018: Additional info possibly relevant for procps-base/pidof ...

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 at 07:00:09 +0000, Craig Small wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:15 AM Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> wrote:
> > The policy-related service management tools moved into into
> > init-system-helpers yesterdays uploads of sysvinit[1] and
> > init-system-helpers[2]. This means service is no longer part of
> > sysvinit-utils and pidof is the only remaining widely used *binary* in
> > that package.

If we want pidof to be provided by a new procps-base instead of
sysvinit-utils for buster, maybe now is the time to start uploading
packages with that change to experimental?

(Please see #810018, #851747 for additional context or if you have
forgotten how far this proposal got previously, as I had.)

>   One thing before we move to the procps pid, it doesn't match all
> processes the pidof one does [1]. I have fixed it upstream but probably
> worth waiting for that to appear otherwise things like kde and sshd
> sessions "disappear".

This appears to have been fixed before procps 3.3.12 (which is in stretch)
if I'm reading changelogs correctly?

Regards,
    smcv