[2017-01-19 10:37] Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> > On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 at 23:21:46 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I have done this now, with a changelog entry that closes these two > > bugs. I think that is appropriate but I'm sure someone will complain > > if not. > > I still think it would be good for sysvinit-utils to not need to > be Essential, because the Essential set is larger than it needs to be. > (In particular, minimal/buildd sid chroots as produced by debootstrap > don't have /sbin/init any more, because a chroot doesn't need it; > so it seems weird for them to be required to contain helpers for > sysvinit/LSB init scripts that they will never run.)
Well, there is enough redundancy in Debian. This one does not seem to be that severe. > While I don't think pidof really deserves to be Essential, it's still > too widely-used to not be; but other distributions ship pidof from > procps, and we could do the same. The rest of the entry points (e.g. > fstab-decode, with 2 users in the archive) are sufficiently narrow > that their users could likely just gain Depends instead. You are welcome to make it happen. But you may want to know, that `pidof.c' in procps is much smaller then `killall5.c' in sysvinit. Probably, these two versions are not interchangeble.
