Re: Bug#1068017: Y2038-safe replacements for utmp/wtmp and lastlog
- To: Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
- Cc: 1068017@bugs.debian.org, Jun MO <royclark086@gmail.com>, csmall@debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-release@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#1068017: Y2038-safe replacements for utmp/wtmp and lastlog
- From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 12:25:07 +0200
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On 2024-05-30 18:41:51 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> wtmpdb takes over the "last" name. Unfortunately without support for
> reading the old files. Nobody wrote tooling to import them or so.
In the new versions of the package, "last" could have been installed
under another name (e.g. last-legacy) instead of dropping it entirely,
in particular because some programs still write to the old wtmp
(which has no issues until 2038).
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