On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 at 06:09, Mark Hindley <m...@hindley.org.uk> wrote:
> 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 catch, I'll write something up on this as it changes a lot. There are probably two questions 1) Does pidof need to be in an Essential package? While a lot of packages do have pidof in them a lot (but not all) of those are in init scripts. 2) Does pidof need its own package then - Craig
