Hello Craig Small. Here's a small status update which might be relevant to consider for this bug report regarding procps-base / pidof.
The policy-related service management tools moved into into init-system-helpers yesterdays uploads of sysvinit[1] and init-system-helpers[2]. This means service is no longer part of sysvinit-utils and pidof is the only remaining widely used *binary* in that package. I also noticed there's a non-binary which also needs to be considered if sysvinit-utils is to be made non-essential: -> /lib/init/init-d-script This script is sourced from 10 packages according to codesearch.debian.net and random samplings says atleast some of them are unconditional. Introducing dependencies is still doable in my view. Regards, Andreas Henriksson [1]: https://tracker.debian.org/news/741657 [2]: https://tracker.debian.org/news/741508
