On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 05:27:51PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > The sysvinit-utils package has gone through a heavy diet and now > ships alot less tools (in favour of shipping them from other maintained > upstreams, notably util-linux). I can re-visit making a procps-base with pidof enabled in it. Upstream is actually maintained (by myself and a few others). It sounds like it is the right time to be doing this. I think it needs a broader discussion than just us two.
> The currently remaining tools in sysvinit-utils (in stretch/sid): > pidof - suggestion to ship it from (new essential) procps(-base) > service - might soon be in init-system-helpers (see #805487). > killall5 - analysis of the 19 matches on codesearch seems to boil down > to: openrc, util-vserver. Adding dependencies seems doable. Is killall5 being actively maintained upstream? If it is not then procps upstream (e.g. me) could recode this and maintain it as part of procps upstream then eventually flow this down to procps-base at a later date. It's basically pkill with different options. > An announcement on debian-devel about introducing a new essential > package is also needed. OK, then I'm happy for procps-base to exist with only pidof in the package. I'd do it slightly differently to how you had it in the patch but with largely the same result. - Craig -- Craig Small (@smallsees) http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 5D2F B320 B825 D939 04D2 0519 3938 F96B DF50 FEA5
