hostname command breaks with IPv6 if /etc/hostname isn't fqdn

Bug #1110919 reported by Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Bug Description

This issue is tracked in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=626292

Unfortunately, the fix has not been backported to Ubuntu 10.04 lTS or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, both of which have versions of hostname < 3.08

Symptoms look like:

hostname --fqdn
hostname: No address associated with the name

This can break various software pieces that use hostname --fqdn for information.

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