On 25/02/2025 10:35, Craig Small wrote:
Hi Debian Release Team,
I released probably the best way of knowing if "we have the time" or not is
to ask you.
So what is this change?
It is replacing the pidof in sysv-init-utils with the pidof in procps.
This will involve making a new Essential package procps-base which will
only have pidof statically linked (to not pull in libproc-2).
Then sysv-init-utils would remove pidof and not be marked Essential.
I don't think this is a change that should be done this close to the freeze.
Please stage this change in experimental if you wish, but let's postpone it
until forky.
btw, the transition suggested by Helmut on [1] sounds reasonable.
Cheers,
Emilio
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/11/msg00105.html
