On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 12:47:07AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Apr 02, Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote:
Does that breaks the usual unix commands like 'who' ? If yes this is
who(1) specifically, yes.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1079575 .
Maybe the coreutils maintainer is already working to backport this
simple patch in time for trixie, or else you could help him.
The issue isn't making a change, the issue is what change is the right
thing to do. IMO, dropping utmp without any kind of a transition or
deprecation period is the wrong thing to do. Hence this thread.