tag 538763 +patch
thanks
Here's a patch that should go into netcfg post-squeeze. It's not a high
enough priority to be worth pissing off translators over. Some of the fix
was already in place via Ubuntu, just not noted anywhere.
- Matt
Index: debian/netcfg-common.templates
===================================================================
--- debian/netcfg-common.templates (revision 66176)
+++ debian/netcfg-common.templates (working copy)
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
The name "${hostname}" is invalid.
.
A valid hostname may contain only the numbers 0-9, the lowercase letters a-z,
- and the minus sign. It must be between 2 and 63 characters long, and may not
+ and the minus sign. It must be at most 63 characters long, and may not
begin or end with a minus sign.
Template: netcfg/error
Index: netcfg-common.c
===================================================================
--- netcfg-common.c (revision 66176)
+++ netcfg-common.c (working copy)
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@
short verify_hostname (char *hname)
{
static const char *valid_chars =
- "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-.";
+ "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-.";
size_t len;
assert(hname != NULL);
