Dear maintainer(s) of cinnamon-screensaver,

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

```
path: cinnamon-screensaver_6.4.1-1/src/util/utils.py
    try:
        res = subprocess.check_output(["pidof", name])
    except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
        pass
```

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 #1136478 in cinnamon-screensaver 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/cinnamon-team/cinnamon-screensaver/-/commit/55ddd1b8f1c05f8207682de6060a6f7737327d92
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d/control: add procps to Depends

cinnamon-screensaver invokes pidof at runtime (process_is_running() in
src/util/utils.py, used by the switch-user path in unlock.py to detect
the running display manager). pidof is currently shipped by the
Essential sysvinit-utils but is being relocated to procps, so the
dependency must be explicit.

Closes: #1136478

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
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Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1136478

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
cinnamon-screensaver, 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 1136478@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it> (supplier of updated cinnamon-screensaver package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:46:42 +0200
Source: cinnamon-screensaver
Built-For-Profiles: noudeb
Architecture: source
Version: 6.6.1-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Cinnamon Team <debian-cinnamon@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>
Closes: 1136478 1143872
Changes:
 cinnamon-screensaver (6.6.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * d/patches:
     - fix unlock failing with pygobject 3.57 (Closes: #1143872)
     - backup-locker: Fix use-after-free of the window monitor cancellable
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