Le jeudi 14 mai 2026, 01:30:42 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Gioele Barabucci a 
écrit :

> Dear maintainer(s) of plasma-desktop,

Hi,

> it appears that plasma-desktop 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-desktop uses `pidof` due to the following
> code snippets:
> 
> ```
> path: plasma-desktop_4:6.5.4-2/appiumtests/desktop/folderviewtest.py
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     assert subprocess.call(["pidof", "plasmashell"]) != 0, "The test requires 
> plasmashell to quit"
>     unittest.main()

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


Happy hacking,
--
Aurélien

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