On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 12:25:19PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 12:07:38PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > Per the discussion on debian-devel, Debian will switch to wtmpdb for
> > > Y2038-safe wtmp recording. If your package writes wtmp entries,
> > > please switch to libpam-wtmpdb or libwtmpdb.
> > 
> > xfce4-terminal uses libutempter[0] for utmp/wtmp management so I'd say
> > support should come from there.
> 
> Yes/maybe. I'm not an expert and have no real opinion on what should
> write an entry, but I think the ideas seem to converge on "terminal
> emulators should probably not write a wtmp entry".

Well, if that's the case we can certainly disable it :) I honestly don't
have a strong opinion on that.
> 
> Feel free to close this.

There's no harm in keeping it open for now so we can trace decisions
later on.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis Perez

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