On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 at 09:26, Craig Small <csm...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi Luca, > The issue is getting from where we are to where we want to be without > breaking everything. In other words, it interim steps along the way. > > Admittedly I haven't thought *too* much about it, but pidof (either one) > needs to be installed all the time, without dragging in all of procps. > There didn't seem to be a good way of doing it. > > If you can find this twisty path, I'm happy to hear about it.
How about, uploaded at the same time: - src:procps with a new procps-pidof binary package that breaks/replaces current sysvinit-utils and with prio: essential - drop pidof and prio:essential from sysvinit-utils and add depends on procps-pidof Shouldn't this work?
