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Re: Proposed RC fix for acct



Hi Andrew,

On Thu, 2025-06-05 at 08:16 +0100, Andrew Bower wrote:
> Hi Team,
> 
> I have prepared a drive-by contribution at
> https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/acct/-/merge_requests/6 to
> fix RC bug https://bugs.debian.org/1074591 raised against acct.
>
> If this fix is acceptable to the team I am willing to prepare an unblock
> request for the package, explaining that the documentation changes are
> an integral part of the fix to ensure that users understand the
> package's limitations and whether it is suitable for their use case.

Thanks for your MR and your offer!

> 
> The login analysis for a running system is no longer effective in acct
> on trixie

May be I am wrong, but wouldn't it be effective with wtmpdb and libpam-
wtmpdb installed? If the answer is yes it seems reasonable to me to
have acct depend on wtmpdb and libpam-wtmpdb. It would also allow for a
simplified change to the documentation.

If the functionality changed at least a 'Suggests' should be added to
d/control, IMHO.

Does this make sense to you, Andrew?

> 
>           but the process accounting capability still works and the
> tools in this package still have utility in analysing files mounted from
> other systems, which I assume to be the use case of the Kali derivative.
> Therefore I suggest it is worth rescuing acct from last minute removal
> from testing.
> 
> Either way, thanks for your attention,

As I am not familiar with acct at all I would like to see an additional
comment on this proposal from a team member more competent in this
regard.

> 
> Andrew

Cheers,
Sven

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