Bug#1136555: plasma-workspace uses pidof but does not depend on procps

Le jeudi 14 mai 2026, 01:30:45 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Gioele Barabucci a écrit :

> Dear maintainer(s) of plasma-workspace,

Hi,

> it appears that plasma-workspace 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.

> It is believed that plasma-workspace uses `pidof` due to the following
> code snippets:
> 
> ```
> path: plasma-workspace_4:6.5.4-3/appiumtests/applets/cameraindicatortest.py
>         cls.driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor=f'http://127.0.0.1:{os.getenv("FLASK_PORT", "4723")}', options=options)
>         cls.pipewire_already_running_before_test = subprocess.Popen(["pidof", "pipewire"]).wait() == 0
>     def tearDown(self) -> None:

we don’t currently run appiumtests (appium not packaged in Debian) so closing.


Happy hacking,
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