On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 19:14, Mark Hindley <m...@hindley.org.uk> wrote: > > Craig, > > Thanks for this. > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 08:08:37PM +1100, Craig Small wrote: > > I'll need the assistance of the sysvinit-utils maintainers (CC'ed) as > > well, as pidof will be moving from that package. > > IIUC, the proposal[1] was to create a new Essential procps-base just > containing > pidof. Otherwise bin:procps would have to become Essential itself. Its > installed > size is about 20 times larger than sysvinit-util and that wouldn't contribute > to > shrinking the Essential set. > > I think this approach would also require a debian-devel email announcing the > addition to the Essential set and I suppose the new src:procps will need a > trip > through NEW.
Good point, I had forgot about that detail, thanks for the reminder
