[Hostname-devel] Bug#501005: Bug#501005: [hostname] domainname command still not working

[Michael Meskes]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:17:12PM +0200, Cristian Greco wrote:
> i'm a new co-maintainer of this package. Bug reopened.

As already explained I disagree with this.

> My proposal is to avoid dropping this behaviour from hostname. We could rather
> provide these aliases through update-alternatives with priority lower than
> those installed by nis.
> 
> If no one complain about this solution (co-maints, Michael?) I'm going to fix
> this in the git repo.

I don't think I agree. Hostname is required and thus installed anyway, why do
you think it makes sense to add a different 'domainname' binary? From a short
look into the sourcecode there's but one function call missing in hostname. So
I'd prefer asking the nis maintainers to drop their domainname binary in favour
of hostname.

Michael
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