Comment # 7 on bug 887039 from Felix Miata

From my reading of the reference in comment 6 it appears this may get fixed.

I can't believe "can't". If you won't fix it, it should be reassigned so that
someone else might, or at least left open so as to not obscure a philosophical
difference between assignee and ideal. Other distros (e.g. Fedora, Mageia,
*buntu) don't seem to have openSUSE's apparent inability to not change
timestamps on unchanged config files that is one of the more pervasive
annoyances about using openSUSE. This is a fundamental distro-wide complaint,
not just about hostname: https://features.opensuse.org/313803

After all, /etc/ belongs to the admin, not the package manager, right?