Dear maintainer(s) of powerdevil,

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

```
path: powerdevil_4:6.5.4-2/autotests/applets/batterymonitortest.py
        for _ in range(10):
            try:
                subprocess.check_call(["pidof", "plasmawindowed"])
            except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
                break


path: powerdevil_4:6.5.4-2/autotests/applets/brightnesstest.py
        for _ in range(10):
            try:
                subprocess.check_call(["pidof", "plasmawindowed"])
            except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
                break
```

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

Regards,

Le jeudi 14 mai 2026, 01:31:00 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Gioele Barabucci a écrit :

Hi,

this is fixed in soon-to-be-uploaded Plasma 6.7 where upstream dropped these tests.


Happy hacking,
--
Aurélien

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
powerdevil, 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 1136559@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Aurélien COUDERC <coucouf@debian.org> (supplier of updated powerdevil package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:57:17 +0200
Source: powerdevil
Architecture: source
Version: 4:6.7.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Aurélien COUDERC <coucouf@debian.org>
Closes: 1136559
Changes:
 powerdevil (4:6.7.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Aurélien COUDERC ]
   * New upstream release (6.7.2). (Closes: #1136559)
   * Drop patches applied upstream.
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