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Title: Drop libnss-myhostname recommends Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in gnome-control-center source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Bug description: gnome-control-center added a Recommends: libnss-myhostname years ago so that it was possible to easily change the hostname in the Details panel. That dependency no longer appears to be needed since we switched to systemd-resolved. Testing Done ============ In both Debian Testing and Ubuntu 18.04 (Debian doesn't use systemd-resolved so seemed useful to try there too). sudo apt uninstall libnss-myhostname Restart Open the GNOME Settings app (gnome-control-center) In the left sidebar, click Devices Enter a different Device name in the block Open a terminal and verify that the hostname has been changed. In Debian, running `ping new-hostname` fails, but it works fine in Ubuntu. Other Info ========== There are concerns about having libnss-myhostname in the default install. See comment 5 at LP: #1741277. See also LP: #1162475 Note that /etc/hosts isn't updated regardless of whether libnss-myhostname is installed (I guess my bug description there was wrong but there was some kind of bug there.) Regression Potential ==================== To quote from the manpage: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/nss-resolve "Note that systemd-resolved will synthesize DNS resource records in a few cases, for example for "localhost" and the current hostname, see systemd-resolved(8) for the full list. This duplicates the functionality of nss-myhostname(8), but it is still recommended (see examples below) to keep nss-myhostname configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf, to keep those names resolveable if systemd- resolved is not running." Ubuntu uses systemd-resolved by default and it's expected that users who don't want to use that will need to configure some things manually. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1766575/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
