Bug#730251: pu: package shutdown-at-night/0.10+deb7u1

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

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[Jonathan Wiltshire]
> Won't this cause problems if the user has switched to make way for
> someone else (perhaps it's a shared machine), the second user has
> logged out and the first user hasn't unlocked their session to carry
> on? If there is unsaved work in that first session, presumably it
> will still be lost when the shutdown occurs.

Yes.  I have yet to see such use case in a school and in an office,
which is the target audience for shutdown-at-night.  So in such
environments, it is better to not install shutdown-at-night.  For the
schools I know about, the users log in when they leave the computer
and shutdown-at-night work correctly.

If you have any idea how to detect if users are logged into X when
utmp isn't updated (instead of my current implementation, which detect
the X login screen), I am very happy to try a different approach.  But
at the moment, with display managers and desktop environments failing
to update utmp, I am at a loss on how to implement it. :/

> (I do agree your proposed patch is better than the current situation
> though.)

As far as I can tell, my proposed patch fixes the use cases reported
to me, and thus I believe it should be included in stable, unless some
better patch solving this and other use cases is available. :)

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen