[Hostname-devel] Bug#626292: Bug#626292: man page claims that /etc/hostname should not contain fqdn

[Clint Adams]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 02:12:54PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> Does the part about the FQDN doesn't explain the claim? What else would you
> like to see? Please see also #253956 for the history of that sentence.

No, it does not.  I don't see any reason in that section why one
should not put an FQDN in /etc/hostname.

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:44:53AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Other parts of that manual page explictly refer to THE FQDN section
> (e.g. "See the warnings in section THE FQDN above"); perhaps another
> explicit referral would satisfy Clint?

It wouldn't; I come from a background where it is considered good
practice to set the hostname to an FQDN, and the ganeti2 packges
in the archive actually require it to function.

The hostname(1) man page says not to do this but it doesn't say
why.  Debian bug#253956 also does not say why.  What am I
misunderstanding here?