Hi,
On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 02:28:26PM +0000, Loic Coupel wrote:
> Can you please let me know who I can contact on Debian Side regarding this
Short story: I think you are wasting your time with this.
Long story:
If you have an issue with the something in Debian then in general you
need to report a bug against the Debian package that contains it.
On this mailing list we are just users offering advice to other users;
we do not act as maintainers of any package, so here isn't really the
correct place to report bugs.
A complication in this circumstance though is that /etc/hosts doesn't
belong to any one Debian package. I believe it is a configuration file
that's supposed to be created at install time by whatever means the
Debian was installed.
Much as there are multiple Linux-based operating systems, there are
multiple ways to install Debian! So in fact it is likely that the
contents of /etc/hosts might differ between them and there isn't even a
single team of people at Debian that would be responsible for your
issue.
However, most installs of Debian are done with its own official
installer and that package is called debian-installer. So you would use
"reportbug" on Debian to report a bug against debian-installer or see:
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
for other ways to report bugs in Debian. It is an email-based workflow.
BUT! I see very little chance that anyone in a position to change how
Debian generates /etc/hosts files will agree that the contents of
/etc/hosts on Debian needs to change unless you can give details of a
specific problem with the contents as they are today. Just saying, "they
are different on different Linux distributions, which is confusing,"
probably isn't going to persuade anyone in my opinion.
I also think that neither is it going to persuade anyone at at any of
the other Linux distributions and there will be very little interest in
making a standard (beyond the already documented format of /etc/hosts),
hence why in my opinion you are wasting your time.
Those are just my opinions though, and I don't control the contents of
/etx/hosts anywhere except my own machines.
> ( I'm already in contact with multiple Instance IEEE/IETF,
Neither IEEE nor IETF have authority over the contents of /etc/hosts
anywhere and so the most they could do is give an opinion. I think they
will correctly decide that it's outside the scope of what they care to
give opinions on and so you are once again wasting your time there.
/etc/hosts is an implementation detail of the operating system and it's
just an unfortunate reality that one sometimes has to learn some
specific details about how one's operating system works.
Thanks,
Andy
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