#1136476 c-icap-modules uses pidof but does not depend on procps

#1136476#5
Date:
2026-05-13 23:25:34 UTC
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Dear maintainer(s) of c-icap-modules,

it appears that c-icap-modules 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 c-icap-modules
  that use `pidof` at runtime;
* via the `Build-Depends:` field of c-icap-modules, 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 c-icap-modules, 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 c-icap-modules uses `pidof` due to the following
code snippets:

```
path: c-icap-modules_1:0.5.7-1/debian/tests/toolbox.sh
  # Let the service get time to start before reading pid file
  /bin/sleep 0.1
  pidof /usr/bin/c-icap > /dev/null || die 'c-icap is not running'
  test -f /var/run/c-icap/c-icap.pid || error 'PidFile missing'
  test -p /var/run/c-icap/c-icap.ctl || error 'CommandsSocket missing'
```

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

Regards,

#1136476#10
Date:
2026-09-07 17:41:42 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package c-icap-modules has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1147086

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

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