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Bug#1083102: marked as done (trixie: last and lastlog are gone)

Your message dated Sun, 22 Jun 2025 01:08:35 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#1083102: trixie: last and lastlog are gone
has caused the Debian Bug report #1083102,
regarding trixie: last and lastlog are gone
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Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: util-linux@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 fix the file formats.

For last(1), SuSE developed "wtmpdb" as a replacement. To make this
work, the wtmpdb and libpam-wtmpdb packages need to be installed.

For lastlog(8), the replacement is lastlog2. To make this work, the
lastlog2 and libpam-lastlog2 packages need to be installed.

For both replacements, the PAM library brings a configuration snippet
that needs to be accepted by the local admin, if necessary by running
pam-auth-update. There is a Recommends: relationship from
wtmpdb/lastlog2 to libpam-wtmpdb/lastlog2, to make installing easier,
but clearly not all users use Recommends.
util-linux does *not* directly depend on the replacements, to avoid
increasing the Essential package set.

util-linux briefly documents this in NEWS.Debian, but given the amount
of bug reports util-linux already(!) gets about last missing, this
really needs to be in the release-notes.

Please consider having some prominent warning in the release notes for
trixie.

Many thanks,
Chris

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On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 03:31:50PM +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 00:38:38 +0200 Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> 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 that is better then what existed before and what wtmpdb
> > provides.
> 
> Suggested text, using info from this bug report at
> https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/214

This was merged, so I think we're done here.

Chris

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