Per the discussion on debian-devel, Debian will switch to wtmpdb for
Y2038-safe wtmp recording. If your package writes wtmp entries,
please switch to libpam-wtmpdb or libwtmpdb.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/04/msg00406.html

Chris

Hi Chris,

xfce4-terminal uses libutempter[0] for utmp/wtmp management so I'd say
support should come from there. I've noticed #1072237 but I'm not sure
about the outcome.

[0] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libutempter

Hi,

Yes/maybe. I'm not an expert and have no real opinion on what should
write an entry, but I think the ideas seem to converge on "terminal
emulators should probably not write a wtmp entry".

Feel free to close this.

Chris

Well, if that's the case we can certainly disable it :) I honestly don't
have a strong opinion on that.

There's no harm in keeping it open for now so we can trace decisions
later on.

Regards,