Your message dated Thu, 14 May 2026 22:15:50 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#1136522: linux uses pidof but does not depend on procps has caused the Debian Bug report #1136522, regarding linux uses pidof but does not depend on procps to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: linux Version: 6.12.73-1 Usertags: pidof-without-procps Dear maintainer(s) of linux, it appears that linux 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 linux that use `pidof` at runtime; * via the `Build-Depends:` field of linux, 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 linux, 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 linux uses `pidof` due to the following code snippets: ``` path: linux_6.19.6-1/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_xdp_features.sh ip link del v1 2> /dev/null ip netns del ${NS} 2> /dev/null [ "$(pidof xdp_features)" = "" ] || kill $(pidof xdp_features) 2> /dev/null } path: linux_6.19.6-1/tools/testing/selftests/net/fin_ack_lat.sh cleanup() { kill $(pidof fin_ack_lat) rm -f $tmpfile } path: linux_6.19.6-1/tools/testing/selftests/amd-pstate/tbench.sh $PERF stat -a --per-socket -I 1000 -e power/energy-pkg/ tbench -t $TIME_LIMIT $PROCESS_NUM > $OUTFILE_TBENCH-perf-$1-$2.log 2>&1 pid=`pidof tbench_srv` kill $pid ``` Feel free to close this issue if this is a false positive (for example if this code is in an unreachable code path). Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci
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--- Begin Message ---Closing: the tests that use pidof aren't currently run.
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