Re: Adding 'gwhois' to volatile

[Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@ftbfs.de>]

Hi Michael,

On Monday, 03 Oct 2005, you wrote:
> I'm the upstream and debian maintainer of the package 'gwhois', a generic
> whois client/proxy. 'gwhois' contains a pattern table which it uses to
> decide which server to query. This table will need updates every now and
> then. I would like to add 'gwhois' to volatile, to be able to package
> versions with updated pattern tables. This is currently really needed, as
> the 'gwhois' package in stable just broke for lookup of .com and .net
> domains (so this is a really severe problem).
In general i have no problem with newer whois clients in volatile. Could
you please link the patch you would apply to the verion in sarge.

Greetings
Martin