Dear maintainer(s) of libretro-bsnes-mercury,

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

```
path: libretro-bsnes-mercury_094+git20220807-8/nall/compositor.hpp
  pclose(fp);
  fp = popen("pidof xfwm4", "r");
  if(fp && fgets(buffer, sizeof buffer, fp)) result = Compositor::Xfwm4;
  pclose(fp);


path: libretro-bsnes-mercury_094+git20220807-8/nall/compositor.hpp
  char buffer[512];
  fp = popen("pidof metacity", "r");
  if(fp && fgets(buffer, sizeof buffer, fp)) result = Compositor::Metacity;
  pclose(fp);
```

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
libretro-bsnes-mercury, 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 1136521@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Fabian Greffrath <fabian@debian.org> (supplier of updated libretro-bsnes-mercury package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:41:35 +0200
Source: libretro-bsnes-mercury
Architecture: source
Version: 094+git20220807-9
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Fabian Greffrath <fabian@debian.org>
Closes: 1015518 1045446 1136521
Changes:
 libretro-bsnes-mercury (094+git20220807-9) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * Explicitly disable LTO in DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS (Closes: #1015518)
   * Properly remove shared object files in clean rule (Closes: #1045446)
   * Add Depends: procps to binary packages (Closes: #1136521)
   * Fix old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file
   * Fix debian-rules-uses-as-needed-linker-flag
   * Fix redundant-priority-optional-field
   * Run wrap-and-sort -ast
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