Re: Bug#184807: whois has a weak and misleading description

[Simon Law <sfllaw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>]

reopen 184807
thanks

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:57:45PM -0500, Simon Law wrote:
> Package: whois
> Version: 4.6.2
> Severity: serious
> Tags: patch
> 
> The description for whois claims that it is GNU whois.  However, the
> FSF's Free Software Directory [1] lists this package as not GNU
> software.  Therefore, I find the description misleading and deceiving.
> 
> 	I have included a patch to fix this.  As well, I believe I have
> made the description more descriptive and useful for users who are
> unfamiliar with the advantages of the default Debian whois package.
> 
> Simon
> 
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/directory/whois.html

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 22:32:07 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 14, Simon Law <sfllaw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> 
>  >The description for whois claims that it is GNU whois.  However, the
> It is, it's in the process of being incorporated in GNU inetutils.

	I presume that you are not trying to be curt nor insulting here.
After consulting with upstream of GNU inetutils, I have noticed that
your whois has not yet been incorporated.  It is _not_ GNU whois.

	Not only that, you ignore the next five solid lines of text,
which provide clarifications to your Description field.  Perhaps you
would like to address this issue, please?

Simon