Dear maintainer(s) of dlt-daemon,

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

```
path: dlt-daemon_3.0.0-4/tests/start_logstorage_test.sh
        rm -rf $pathTmp/$folderName
    fi
    pidof dlt-daemon > /dev/null
    if [ $? -eq '0' ]
    then


path: dlt-daemon_3.0.0-4/testscripts/Ubuntu/dlt-daemon.cmake
		fi
		pidofdlt=`pidof $DESC`
		if [ $pidofdlt ]
		then


path: dlt-daemon_3.0.0-4/testscripts/Ubuntu/dlt-daemon.cmake
		pidofdlt=`pidof $DESC`
		if [ $pidofdlt ]
		then
			log_daemon_msg "$NAME has the PID:$pidofdlt"


path: dlt-daemon_3.0.0-4/tests/start_multinode_test.sh
        PIDOF()
        {
            pidof $1 > /dev/null
            return $?
        }
```

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

Regards,

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dlt-daemon, 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 1136495@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org> (supplier of updated dlt-daemon package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:25:01 +0200
Source: dlt-daemon
Built-For-Profiles: derivative.ubuntu noudeb
Architecture: source
Version: 3.0.0-10
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>
Changed-By: Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>
Closes: 1136495
Changes:
 dlt-daemon (3.0.0-10) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Add B-D on procps, due to usage of pidof tool (Closes: #1136495)
     - thanks Gioele Barabucci <gioele@debian.org> for analysis and bug report
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