Bug#1083102: trixie: last and lastlog are gone

2025-01-17 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 00:38:38 +0200 Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 07:57:04PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: > > I think the advice for most users would be that they dont need to do > > anything else > > Yes. My idea was that actually caring sites probably have something > in place

Bug#1083102: trixie: last and lastlog are gone

2024-10-04 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 07:57:04PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: > I think the advice for most users would be that they dont need to do > anything else Yes. My idea was that actually caring sites probably have something in place that is better then what existed before and what wtmpdb provides. Chri

Re: Bug#1083102: trixie: last and lastlog are gone

2024-10-04 Thread Justin B Rye
Richard Lewis wrote: > Chris Hofstaedtler writes: >> util-linux used to ship three vaguely related programs: last, lastb, and >> lastlog. In trixie, they are gone. > > Is this true on all architectures? (when this broke chkrootkit > it only affected the 64-bit ones) I'd missed your mention on th

Re: Bug#1083102: trixie: last and lastlog are gone

2024-10-03 Thread Richard Lewis
Chris Hofstaedtler writes: > util-linux used to ship three vaguely related programs: last, lastb, and > lastlog. In trixie, they are gone. Is this true on all architectures? (when this broke chkrootkit it only affected the 64-bit ones) Can i also check whether any attempt is made to delete th

Bug#1083102: trixie: last and lastlog are gone

2024-10-03 Thread Justin B Rye
Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > util-linux used to ship three vaguely related programs: last, lastb, and > lastlog. In trixie, they are gone. [...] > Please consider having some prominent warning in the release notes for > trixie. The warning should perhaps explicitly mention that wtmpdb can't read th

Bug#1083102: trixie: last and lastlog are gone

2024-10-01 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Package: release-notes Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: util-li...@packages.debian.org Hi, util-linux used to ship three vaguely related programs: last, lastb, and lastlog. In trixie, they are gone. The fileformat and the programs are not Year-2038 safe, and the involved upstreams do not want to f