Package: psmisc
Version: 22.6-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The package description for psmisc says:
# Package: psmisc
[...]
# Replaces: procps (<< 1:1.2)
[...]
# Description: Utilities that use the proc filesystem
# This package contains three little utilities that use the proc FS:
# .
# `fuser' identifies processes using files (similar to Sun's or SGI's fuser).
# `killall' kills processes by name, e.g. killall -HUP named. `pstree' shows
# the currently running processes as a tree
In fact the package contains /bin/fuser, /usr/bin/killall,
/usr/bin/oldfuser, /usr/bin/peekfd, /usr/bin/pstree, and
/usr/bin/pstree.x11, which surely comes to at least four. Its
README.Debian expresses an ambition to reinclude pidof, too. So my
updated version avoids giving a number.
My revision enforces a few debian-l10n-english standardisations
(such as en_USified spelling), and saves space by omitting the UNIX
archaeology. It also drops the Replaces: line for Hamm-era procps.
I also considered changing the "killall -HUP named" example to
"killall -USR1 dd" (since named(8) specifically recommends using
rndc instead of SIGHUP). But I haven't changed that, and I've left
oldfuser in its completely undocumented state. Probably you'll want
to reformat and/or rewrite it all to suit your own tastes anyway...
Description: utilities that use the proc file system
This package contains miscellaneous utilities that use the proc FS:
.
- fuser: identifies processes that are using files or sockets.
- killall: kills processes by name (e.g. "killall -HUP named").
- peekfd: shows the data traveling over a file descriptor.
- pstree: shows currently running processes as a tree.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.custom
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages psmisc depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080308-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
psmisc recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ru psmisc-22.6.pristine/debian/control psmisc-22.6/debian/control
--- psmisc-22.6.pristine/debian/control 2008-06-10 15:20:33.000000000 +0100
+++ psmisc-22.6/debian/control 2008-06-10 16:28:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -8,11 +8,10 @@
Package: psmisc
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} ${misc:Depends}
-Replaces: procps (<< 1:1.2)
-Description: Utilities that use the proc filesystem
- This package contains three little utilities that use the proc FS:
+Description: utilities that use the proc file system
+ This package contains miscellaneous utilities that use the proc FS:
.
- `fuser' identifies processes using files (similar to Sun's or SGI's fuser).
- `killall' kills processes by name, e.g. killall -HUP named. `pstree' shows
- the currently running processes as a tree
-
+ - fuser: identifies processes that are using files or sockets.
+ - killall: kills processes by name (e.g. "killall -HUP named").
+ - peekfd: shows the data traveling over a file descriptor.
+ - pstree: shows currently running processes as a tree.
