Dear maintainer(s) of smbldap-tools,

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

```
path: smbldap-tools_0.9.11-3/smbldap-config.pl
# we first check if Samba is up and running
my $test_smb=`pidof smbd`;
chomp($test_smb);
die "\nSamba needs to be started first !\n" if ($test_smb eq "" || not defined $test_smb);
```

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
smbldap-tools, 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 1136587@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Gioele Barabucci <gioele@debian.org> (supplier of updated smbldap-tools package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:34:29 +0200
Source: smbldap-tools
Architecture: source
Version: 0.9.11-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Changed-By: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@debian.org>
Closes: 1136587
Changes:
 smbldap-tools (0.9.11-4) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * QA upload.
   * d/control:
     - Update standards version to 4.7.4
     - Drop `Priority: optional`, default as of dpkg-dev 1.22.13
     - Drop `Rules-Requires-Root: no`, default as of dpkg-dev 1.22.13
     - Depend on procps for pidof (Closes: #1136587)
   * d/salsa-ci.yml: Update recipe's URL
   * d/README.source: remove outdated file
   * d/preinst: Remove outdated maintscript
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