Dear maintainer(s) of aide,

it appears that aide 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.

Please add an explicit dependency on `procps`:

* via the `Depends:` field of all binary packages of aide
  that use `pidof` at runtime;
* via the `Build-Depends:` field of aide, if `pidof` is
  used in tests run at build-time;
* via the `Depends:` field of `debian/control/tests`, if `pidof` is
  used in autopkgtests.

To prevent any disruption for users of aide, please add
this dependency now, before `pidof` is moved from `sysvinit-utils` to
`procps`. Alternatively, you could remove all uses of `pidof`.

It is believed that aide uses `pidof` due to the following
code snippets:

```
path: aide_0.19.2-3/debian/bin/dailyaidecheck
    if [ -n "${LOCKED:-}" ]; then
        # we have the lock,
        pidof aide | xargs --no-run-if-empty kill -9
    fi
    if type -t onexit >/dev/null; then


path: aide_0.19.2-3/debian/aide.conf.d/31_aide_torrus
CPID="$(pidof collector)"
if [ "${CPID}" ]; then
  printf "!/var/log/torrus/dbenv_errlog_%d$ f\\n" "$(pidof collector)"
fi
printf " /var/log/torrus$ d VarDir\\n"


path: aide_0.19.2-3/debian/aide.conf.d/31_aide_torrus
printf "!/var/lib/torrus/session_data/lock/Apache-Session-[0-9a-f]{32}\\.lock$ f\\n"
printf " /var/lib/torrus/session_data/(store|lock)$ d VarDir\\n"
CPID="$(pidof collector)"
if [ "${CPID}" ]; then
  printf "!/var/log/torrus/dbenv_errlog_%d$ f\\n" "$(pidof collector)"
```

Feel free to close this issue if this is a false positive (for example
if this code is in an unreachable code path).

Regards,

Hello,

Bug #1136466 in aide reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/aide/-/commit/fcbff38494b8717a80e32a47986aba49baff9c5f
------------------------------------------------------------------------
suggest procps

Thanks: Gioele Barabucci
Closes: #1136466
------------------------------------------------------------------------

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-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1136466

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
aide, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1136466@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> (supplier of updated aide package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2026 08:42:42 +0200
Source: aide
Architecture: source
Version: 0.19.4-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Aide Maintainers <aide@packages.debian.org>
Changed-By: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Closes: 228 229 1136466
Changes:
 aide (0.19.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New Upstream version 0.19.4
     * Fix segfault on db line with missing tokens (closes: #229)
     * Fix segfault on limit matching encoded filename (closes: #228)
   * rule changes:
     * adapt 31_aide_torrus to new log handling
     * 10_aide_machineid fix MACHINEID generation
     * new rule 10_aide_os-release
     * new rule 10_aide_setpackagelist
     * new rule 11_aide_pidrange
     * improve rule 31_aide_cron-apt
     * improve rule 10_aide_dateformats
     * improve rule 31_aide_apt-cacher-ng
     * improve rule 31_aide_exim4
     * improve rule 31_aide_cups
     * improve rule 31_aide_mdadm
     * improve rule 31_aide_munin
     * improve rule 31_aide_samba
     * improve rule 31_aide_sniproxy
     * improve rule 31_aide_spamassassin
     * improve rule 31_aide_spamassassin
   * suggest procps.
     Thanks to Gioele Barabucci (Closes: #1136466)
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