The change from 'localhost' to 'localhost.localdomain' was made in
svn revision 16759. The Debian changelog entry added at that time
refers to bug report #247734. Looking at #247734 I see that
'localhost.localdomain' appeared without anyone either supporting
its inclusion or objecting to it. This wasn't what the conversation
was about.
I see no reason not to revert the change. If the presence of
'localhost.localdomain' causes trouble and if standard practice is
to have 'localhost' only then I think that that is reason enough to
revert.
However, I think that applications should work properly whether
/etc/hosts contains
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
or
127.0.0.1 localhost
especially considering the fact that the sarge installer writes
/etc/hosts with the former.
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Thomas Hood
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