Dear maintainer(s) of cinnamon-session,

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

```
path: cinnamon-session_6.4.2-1/cinnamon-session/csm-manager.c
{
        int num_processes;
        gchar *command = g_strdup_printf ("pidof %s | wc -l", name);
        FILE *fp = popen(command, "r");
        fscanf(fp, "%d", &num_processes);
```

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 #1136479 in cinnamon-session 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-session/-/commit/ea9d302a0a60a666a9d92236ce366a2d58ddee15
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d/control: add procps to Depends

cinnamon-session invokes pidof at runtime (process_is_running() in
csm-manager.c, used in the switch-user path 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: #1136479

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

https://bugs.debian.org/1136479

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
cinnamon-session, 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 1136479@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-session package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:13:27 +0200
Source: cinnamon-session
Built-For-Profiles: noudeb
Architecture: source
Version: 6.6.4-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Cinnamon Team <debian-cinnamon@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>
Closes: 1136479
Changes:
 cinnamon-session (6.6.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream version 6.6.4
   * d/control: add systemd-dev to build-deps
   * Update standards version to 4.7.4, no changes needed
   * d/cinnamon-session.install: add systemd user unit
   * d/patches: add upstream fix for cinnamon restart rate-limit exemption
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