On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 02:23:06PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > Instead I would suggest recycling some text from the much more > informative man page and/or GitHub README. My patch has: > > | Package: wtmpdb > [...] > | Description: utility to display login/logout/reboot information > | This package provides the program wtmpdb, which reads wtmp's > | database of user logins/logouts and system reboots. > | . > | It provides a year-2038 safe replacement for the traditional Unix > | "last" utility.
Applied in git, thanks. > I've left the library packages alone, since a library's function is > usually obvious from the things that depend on it... but in fact you > might want the descriptions to comment on the way wtmpdb has a > Recommends: libpam-wtmpdb instead of a Depends. It's not obvious why > anyone would ever want to install wtmpdb without libpam-wtmpdb (as > opposed to just configuring the PAM module "off"), libpam-wtmpdb is just dead code if its "off". Neither package needs the other for working, so I don't think there should be a Depends: relation. If the argument was made in favor of the Depends:, then it should be in both directions, and then its a policy violation. Chris
