maverick: utmp/last is logging every xterm

[Tom H]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:21 PM, C de-Avillez <hggdh2 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 01/27/2011 04:16 PM, Adam Funk wrote:
>>
>> OK, that makes sense.  Looking through the changelog [1], I get the
>> impression that utmp logging was supposed to be included in lucid but
>> couldn't be because libutempter was in universe; but in maverick that
>> library is in main so the feature could be put in xterm.  Of course, I
>> could have the wrong end of the stick.
>
> No, you are correct -- since libutempter was in Universe, xterm
> could not depend on it to write utmp entries (unless xterm itself
> was demoted from main) -- so it was built without the interface.

So my speculation was earlier speculation was wrong. :)