Dear maintainer(s) of php-defaults,

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

```
path: php-defaults_99/sessionclean
done
# first find all open session files and touch them (hope it's not massive amount of files)
for pid in $(pidof $proc_names); do
    find "/proc/$pid/fd" -ignore_readdir_race -lname "$save_path/sess_*" -exec touch -c {} \; 2>/dev/null
done ) | \
```

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

Regards,

Control: tags -1 patch
In fact `sessionclean` is shipped as part of `php-common` and called
from a systemd service, so `php-common` must depend on `pidof`.

You can find a MR with a fix for this issue at
<https://salsa.debian.org/php-team/php-defaults/-/merge_requests/6>.

Regards,

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
php-defaults, 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 1136552@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org> (supplier of updated php-defaults package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:17:48 +0200
Source: php-defaults
Architecture: source
Version: 101
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <team+pkg-php@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>
Closes: 1136552
Changes:
 php-defaults (101) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Gioele Barabucci ]
   * d/control.in: Add procps dependency to php-common (Closes: #1136552)
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