Control: tags -1 patch
On Thu, 14 May 2026 01:26:55 +0200 Gioele Barabucci <[email protected]>
wrote:
it appears that corectrl uses `pidof` in its testsuite, or that
at least one of its binary packages uses `pidof` at runtime.
Historically, `pidof` was provided by the Essential package
`sysvinit-tools`, making an explicit dependency unnecessary. However
`pidof` will soon be moved to `procps` and will no longer be part of
the Essential set.
Please add an explicit dependency on `procps`:
* via the `Depends:` field of all binary packages of corectrl
that use `pidof` at runtime;
* via the `Build-Depends:` field of corectrl, if `pidof` is
used in tests run at build-time;
* via the `Depends:` field of `debian/control/tests`, if `pidof` is
used in autopkgtests.
To prevent any disruption for users of corectrl, please add
this dependency now, before `pidof` is moved from `sysvinit-utils` to
`procps`. Alternatively, you could remove all uses of `pidof`.
It is believed that corectrl uses `pidof` due to the following
code snippets:
```
path: corectrl_1.5.2+ds-1/src/helper/helperkiller.cpp
QProcess cmd;
cmd.start(QStringLiteral("pidof"), QStringList(HELPER_EXE));
bool result = cmd.waitForFinished();
```
Dear corectrl maintainers,
the function HelperKiller::save uses pidof to find the PID of the
process to terminate, so corectrl must depend on procps.
A MR that add this dependency can be found at
<https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/corectrl/-/merge_requests/5>.
Regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
