Bug#22206: Some package uses psmisc without a dependency

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>]

Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:

> Anyway, since psmisc is not essential (and this is what really
> matters), it would be interesting to know which package uses killall
> (if any) and where, to add the appropriate Dependency.

Maintainer scripts (and most everything else) should not use killall,
killall is Evil[1].  Packages using killall should be fixed not to use
it rather than depend on psmisc.

[1]  <URL:http://www.nl.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9801/msg01205.html>

-- 
James


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