Hello Justin, one more question, should I say something in the debcobf
template instead of "(lowercase)" something like "your input if containing
uppercase characters will be converted to lowercase"? What would be your
suggestion?

Best,
Neil Castelino


Justin B Rye <justin.byam....@gmail.com> schrieb am Do., 10. Aug. 2017,
13:28:

> Neil Castelino wrote:
> >> This says "host name" twice and "hostnames" once.  In principle
> >> "hostname" is a technical term regulated by RFCs while "host name"
> >> might just mean any name a host is known by.  Assuming that you
> >> don't actually mean "fully qualified domain name", I'd recommend
> >> standardising on "hostname" (to match "username" below).
> >
> > Since we can use something like "localhost" or "jabber1" or
> > "foo.bar.org", would I use still use "hostname" or "host name" as it may
> > be a FQDN?
>
> I think you still want "hostname".  For things like Jabber (and the
> XMPP RFCs) that's the word used for "however much of an alphanumeric
> label you need to identify the server"; you rarely need to distinguish
> hostnames from domain names unless you're specifically talking about
> DNS.
> --
> JBR     with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
>         sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
>

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