> For your information, you can use reportbug with path to a file as argument, > it > will check the owner packgage. > > $ dpkg -S hostname.1 > hostname: /usr/share/man/man1/hostname.1.gz
Did I misfile this bug? My apologies. >> More likely, the author meant that using 'hostname' is not the >> *correct* way to change the domain name and that using it that way >> might cause random breakage. >> >> There are many tutorials on the Internet which actually tell people to >> do the opposite, by putting the FQDN in /etc/hostname. I believe the >> man page is correct and the tutorials are incorrect, but the man page >> should explain why it's wrong and how to correctly set the FQDN. > > IMO, you should provide hostname maintainers the rationale why FQDN in > /etc/hostname is bad. Unfortunately, I do not know the rationale for why the man page was written that way. I notice that the man page has been updated since I reported the bug (nearly three years ago) with a footnote that "nowadays most software is able to cope with a full FQDN" in /etc/hostname. So I guess that point is rendered moot. However, I hope the rest of my suggestions (and patch) will be found useful by you. --Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
