See Bugzilla Bug#: 72381 Package homepage: http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/python-utmp/ Reason: Develop tool which needs to read and interpret wtmp entries. Inclusion to portage would be much appreciated.
Why is this marked obsolete? The package is still missing, and other packages, like x11-misc/winswitch / x11-wm/xpra depend on it for certain functionality (access to X11 sessions). Please reopen.
P.S: "Proof": winswitch_applet outputs an error: LocalX11ServerUtil.detect_existing_sessions() cannot detect local X11 displays without utmp support (either python-utmp or pyutmp)
An alternative would by pyutmp, e.g. if there is any reason not to support python-utmp. See-Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552472
Note, that there is also https://pypi.python.org/pypi/utmp, but that is Python 3.4 only, and thus does not help for winswitch (Python 2.7).
+*utmp-0.4 (19 Jun 2015) + + 19 Jun 2015; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> +metadata.xml, +utmp-0.4.ebuild: + New package, ebuild written by me; bug #255003
