Hi Michael. On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:02:19AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> 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. Agreed. Given that hostname does not provide the domainname binary anymore, this should be fixed by removing the wrong text from 'hostname --help'. Sorry for the misunderstanding. > > 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. So I have a patch to use update-alternatives to handle ypdomainname and nisdomain programs. Can I commit it to git repo? I'd file a bug in nis asking for cooperation then. Thanks, -- Cristian Greco GPG key ID: 0x0C095825
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