Why isn't the "whois" package (Priority: standard) installed by default?

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

The "whois" package has "Priority: standard".

According to the Debian policy[*]:

  standard

    These packages provide a reasonably small but not too limited
    character-mode system. This is what will be installed by default
    if the user doesn’t select anything else. It doesn’t include many
    large applications.

    Two packages that both have a priority of standard or higher must
    not conflict with each other.

[*] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html

So, why isn't this package installed by default?

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