Debian Bug report logs - #1085643
coreutils: 'who' needs to support y2038-safe utmp alternative

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Package: src:coreutils; Maintainer for src:coreutils is Michael Stone <[email protected]>;

Affects: src:systemd

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:03:01 UTC

Severity: important

Fixed in version 9.7-1

Done: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>

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From: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>
To: Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#1085643: severity of 1085643 is minor, affects 1085643
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Version: 9.7-1

On 2024-10-21 14:22:29 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> reassign 1085643 src:coreutils
> severity 1085643 important
> affects 1085643 src:systemd
> thanks
> 
> coreutils needs to do something, not systemd.

Now fixed in 9.7-1 (see bug 1080330). The behavior of "who" has
changed, but there are other ways to get information on the terminals
(more reliably than previous versions of "who").

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