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and subject line Bug#1083228: fixed in wtmpdb 0.73.0-1
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Package: wtmpdb
Version: 0.13.0-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Debian Policy says a package description should provide enough
information for users to decide whether they need the package
installed. But why would anybody want to read something called the
"wtmp database"? The significance of that particular implementation
detail is very much not obvious from its name - see for instance
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/127211/why-are-utmp-wtmp-and-btmp-called-as-they-are
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.
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"), so if there is a
real potential use case for doing so it would be helpful if the
package description for one or both of these packages gave a hint.
(If there isn't one, the relation should be a Depends.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.10.9-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages wtmpdb depends on:
ii libaudit1 1:3.1.2-4+b1
ii libc6 2.40-2
ii libsystemd0 256.6-1
ii libwtmpdb0 0.13.0-1
Versions of packages wtmpdb recommends:
ii libpam-wtmpdb 0.13.0-1
wtmpdb suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
--- control.orig 2024-07-27 15:41:22.000000000 +0100
+++ control 2024-10-02 19:31:02.670023798 +0100
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@
Recommends:
libpam-wtmpdb,
Multi-Arch: foreign
-Description: Read wtmp database
- This package provides the wtmpdb program, to read the
- wtmp database.
+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.
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: wtmpdb
Source-Version: 0.73.0-1
Done: Andrew Bower <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
wtmpdb, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andrew Bower <[email protected]> (supplier of updated wtmpdb package)
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Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:29:42 +0100
Source: wtmpdb
Architecture: source
Version: 0.73.0-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Andrew Bower <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andrew Bower <[email protected]>
Closes: 1083228 1102101
Changes:
wtmpdb (0.73.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Andrew Bower ]
* New upstream version
- drop patches adopted upstream
- fixes time specifications (Closes: #1102101)
* patch to fix import of logins recorded by some wtmp writers
* refine man page for debian, appeasing lintian
* d/control:
- further extend package descriptions (Closes: #1083228)
- mark libwtmpdb-dev as Multi-Arch: same
* d/copyright: set missing Upstream-Contact field
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