[Bug 2084854] Re: last and lastb missing in 24.10

[Andrew Bower]

The bad news is that even utmpdump is dumped from the next release. In
mitigation, there will be fewer things writing to the utmp-formatted
logs and lastb would probably be more or less useless for that reason
now, but that still leaves no solution for interrogating old logs.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/2.40.2-14ubuntu1

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util-linux (2.40.2-12) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Stop building utmpdump, should not be necessary on wtmpdb systems
  * Stop marking mkfds-socketpair test as failing
  * Skip tmpfs-sensitive tests if fstype cannot be determined
  * Amend NEWS entry to hint updating /root/.profile (Closes: #1088009)

 -- Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha at debian.org>  Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:35:11
+0100

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Title:
  last and lastb missing in 24.10

Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The last and lastb commands have disappeared from util-linux at 24.10!

  This is odd, as the binaries from 24.04 actually run on 24.10, so the
  data is clearly still being collected and in the same format.

  Ubuntu: 24.10 (Oracular Oriole).

  Package: util-linux
  Version: 2.40.2-1ubuntu1

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