Bug#568889: manpages: hostname(1) manpage is poorly written

2012-11-21 Thread Ben Wong
> For your information, you can use reportbug with path to a file as argument, > it > will check the owner packgage. > > $ dpkg -S hostname.1 > hostname: /usr/share/man/man1/hostname.1.gz Did I misfile this bug? My apologies. >> More likely, the author meant that using 'hostname' is not the >> *

Bug#568889: manpages: hostname(1) manpage is poorly written

2012-11-19 Thread Simon Paillard
Control: reassign -1 hostname Hello, For your information, you can use reportbug with path to a file as argument, it will check the owner packgage. $ dpkg -S hostname.1 hostname: /usr/share/man/man1/hostname.1.gz On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 07:45:29AM -0800, Ben Wong wrote: > Package: manpages > Ve

Bug#568889: manpages: hostname(1) manpage is poorly written

2010-02-08 Thread Ben Wong
Package: manpages Version: 3.05-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch The hostname(1) manual page is needlessly obtuse when it comes to Fully Qualified Domain Names. For example, the introductory sentence to the FQDN section states, You can't change the FQDN (as returned by hostname --fqdn) or the D