Bug#22206: Some package uses psmisc without a dependency
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On 7 May 1998, James Troup wrote:
> 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>
Ok, nothing to object. I killall is really evil, perhaps it should be
documented in the policy. It is?
Thanks.
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