[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#628140: initscripts: /etc/init.d/hostname.sh fails if /etc/hostname not present

[Edgar Fuß]

> What do you think about this?
Regardless of whether that change is eventually applied to the Linux Kernel:
1. People will continue to run stable distribution kernels
2. Whatever value the kernel chooses for an unset host name, be it the empty string, ``(none)'', ``localhost'', ``Amnesiac'' or whatever, should be treated by the init script as just that: unset. It doesn't appear to make sense to ask the kernel to set the hostname to unset in case it's unset.