Bug#904789: xfce4-terminal: fails to update utmp; breaks write and who
Package: xfce4-terminal
Version: 0.8.7.3-0ubuntu1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Would you please add --with-utempter to the package configure rules, and
include libutemper in the dependencies?
Background:
When libvte dropped utmp support, it left xfce4-terminal sessions invisible to
common utilities like "who", "write", along with every script and workflow that
depends on them. This functionality was later restored via the above build
option, but that option is not enabled by default. It would be nice to have
these things working again.
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13710
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers bionic-updates
APT policy: (500, 'bionic-updates'), (500, 'bionic-security'), (500, 'bionic'), (100, 'bionic-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages xfce4-terminal depends on:
ii exo-utils 0.12.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.28.1-1
ii libc6 2.27-3ubuntu1
ii libcairo2 1.15.10-2
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.11-2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.56.1-2ubuntu1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.30-1ubuntu1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.14-1
ii libvte-2.91-0 0.52.2-1ubuntu1~18.04.1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
ii libxfce4ui-2-0 4.13.4-1ubuntu1
ii libxfce4util7 4.12.1-3
Versions of packages xfce4-terminal recommends:
ii dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus] 1.12.2-1ubuntu1
ii dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.12.2-1ubuntu1
xfce4-terminal suggests no packages.
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