Bug#1136559: powerdevil uses pidof but does not depend on procps

Le jeudi 14 mai 2026, 01:31:00 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Gioele Barabucci a écrit :

> Dear maintainer(s) of powerdevil,

Hi,

> it appears that powerdevil 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.

this is fixed in soon-to-be-uploaded Plasma 6.7 where upstream dropped these tests.


Happy hacking,
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Aurélien