No, I meant that I had found a version of an old network.pl in my system
and had thought it was modern.

I've taken another short look at system-tool-backends, and found
ensure_loopback_statichost in line 329 of Network/hosts.pm. If that
function is called with the hostname, it still does what this bug
complains about; however, as that is its name, that's not really
surprising... the point of the bug was that hostname should not always
be an alias of loopback. Finding if the function is really called when
the hostname is already defined is beyond me at this point -- I don't
even know if it is exposed to GUIs or not. So, actually, I'm no longer
sure if the bug is solved, and if not, which package it belongs in.

Hope this helps...

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[network-admin] aliases hostname to 127.0.0.1 unconditionally
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