Bug 255003

Summary:	dev-python/python-utmp (New package)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	emos696
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	dschridde+gentoobugs, emos696, jlec, python
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description emos696 2009-01-15 04:46:42 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Dennis Schridde 2015-06-18 16:08:33 UTC

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.

Comment 2 Dennis Schridde 2015-06-18 16:11:39 UTC

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)

Comment 3 Dennis Schridde 2015-06-18 16:18:42 UTC

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

Comment 4 Dennis Schridde 2015-06-18 16:26:16 UTC

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).

Comment 5 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-06-19 08:02:29 UTC

+*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