Re: MBF proposal: pidof used without Depends: procps

On Thu, 7 May 2026 at 08:45, Gioele Barabucci <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> at least one of the binary packages built from ${SOURCE} appears to use
> `pidof` at runtime. `pidof` will soon be provided by `procps` and will
> no longer be part of the Essential set.
>
While this does give all the information, I'd like it to emphasise that its
not something
the developer missed, but the situation has changed. Also that they didn't
need to consider
where pidof came from previously because it was in an essential package.

 - Craig