On Sun, Feb 09, 2025 at 01:01:08AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 12:47:05PM +0000, Andrew Bower wrote: > > I appreciate that the utmp-capable tooling has been removed from default > > installations to avoid users being misled that they are appropriate for > > administering current systems since the move to wtmpdb. However, I don't > > think > > that is a reason why they should not be available in the archive at all. > > > > I suspect there will be significant unsatisfied demand for tools in the next > > stable release that are capable of reading log files previously populated > > with > > information in utmp format. > > I think this is misguided. trixie will be the release that underwent > a very painful t64 transition so all software in it is supposed to > continue working past year 2038. For the utmp format, this is AFAIK > not the case.
I am aware of the transition; this suggestion is about tools to interrogate extant files. I expect there will be some demand for them. I noticed that wtmpdb upstream used the existence of utmpdump in Debian as a reason why importing those files wasn't urgent, but that premise is no longer true and yet there is no importer. I think users will be avoidably disappointed.
