Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org
* Package name : wtmpdb Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Contact: Thorsten Kukuk <ku...@suse.com> * URL : https://github.com/thkukuk/wtmpdb * License : BSD 2-Clause Programming Lang: C Description : Year 2038 safe wtmp implementation Wtmpdb is a replacement for the `/var/log/wtmp` file which stores login and logout time of users as well as boot and shutdown times of the machine. These data are stored in an SQLite database and use 64-bit timestamps on all architectures, thus it will keep working beyond the year 2038. OpenSUSE seems to be switching from the wtmp file to wtmpdb already[1]. Whether Debian should or will do the same remains to be seen, but as a first step I intend to package wtmpdb so it can be evaluated. It should be noted that the planned transition to 64-bit time_t on most 32-bit architectures will have an immediate impact on the /var/log/wtmp file, because programs built with a 64-bit time_t can suddenly write 64-bit timestamps into the wtmp file or misread existing ones. See bug #1042562[2] (which only talks about utmp, but wtmp should be equally affected). I will need a sponsor at least for the initial upload. Should wtmpdb gain popularity or even become the default wtmp implementation, I would like to handle it over to a team. 1. https://microos.opensuse.org/blog/2023-06-28-switch-to-wtmpdb/ 2. https://bugs.debian.org/1042562
