Bug#538763: Patch for hostname craziness

[Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>]

tag 538763 +patch
thanks

Here's a patch that should go into netcfg post-squeeze.  It's not a high
enough priority to be worth pissing off translators over.  Some of the fix
was already in place via Ubuntu, just not noted anywhere.

- Matt

Index: debian/netcfg-common.templates
===================================================================
--- debian/netcfg-common.templates	(revision 66176)
+++ debian/netcfg-common.templates	(working copy)
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
  The name "${hostname}" is invalid.
  .
  A valid hostname may contain only the numbers 0-9, the lowercase letters a-z,
- and the minus sign. It must be between 2 and 63 characters long, and may not
+ and the minus sign. It must be at most 63 characters long, and may not
  begin or end with a minus sign.
 
 Template: netcfg/error
Index: netcfg-common.c
===================================================================
--- netcfg-common.c	(revision 66176)
+++ netcfg-common.c	(working copy)
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@
 short verify_hostname (char *hname)
 {
     static const char *valid_chars =
-        "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-.";
+        "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-.";
     size_t len;
     assert(hname != NULL);