In trixie, the venerable "last" utility has been retired from util-linux,
in favour of a younger one (that by the way brings in two extra packages,
but I digress).

What about resurrecting the one from src:sysvinit?

It builds and works like a charm, but is not packaged in sysvinit-utils
because it's listed in debian/not-installed.  It might be just an
update-alternatives(1) away from being useful.

Best regards,
	g.

Hi g1,
pkg-security team would classify it).

See: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/sysvinit/-/merge_requests/14

Also see https://bugs.debian.org/1095490 for the corresponding
suggestion for util-linux.

Since glibc made tv_sec unsigned in struct utmp, the Y2038 argument for
keeping this out no longer applies (it becomes Y2106), but I would
suggest checking that the code and behaviour of the tools handles this
correctly, before restoring them to the archive.

You may also be interested in https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-utmp,
which is capable of reading utmp-format files and is presently the
subject of a salvaging exercise (https://bugs.debian.org/1128564).

Hope this helps!

Andrew