Bug#1083102: trixie: last and lastlog are gone
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
the old database format, which means that on a newly upgraded trixie
system there will be no way of viewing the contents of the leftover
/var/log/wtmp file.
(Except perhaps the busybox "last" applet, but that's assuming busybox
isn't going to remove that applet some time soon.)
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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