Hi g1, On Mon, Mar 02, 2026 at 05:03:56PM +0100, g1 wrote: > In trixie, the venerable "last" utility has been retired from util-linux, > in favour of a younger one (that by the way brings in two extra packages, > but I digress). > > What about resurrecting the one from src:sysvinit?
I agree. If nothing else, there is value as a 'forensic' tool (as the pkg-security team would classify it). See: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/sysvinit/-/merge_requests/14 Also see https://bugs.debian.org/1095490 for the corresponding suggestion for util-linux. > It builds and works like a charm, but is not packaged in sysvinit-utils > because it's listed in debian/not-installed. It might be just an > update-alternatives(1) away from being useful. Since glibc made tv_sec unsigned in struct utmp, the Y2038 argument for keeping this out no longer applies (it becomes Y2106), but I would suggest checking that the code and behaviour of the tools handles this correctly, before restoring them to the archive. You may also be interested in https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-utmp, which is capable of reading utmp-format files and is presently the subject of a salvaging exercise (https://bugs.debian.org/1128564). Hope this helps! Andrew
