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Re:MaraDNS: A small open-source DNS server by mike_d on Monday September 04, 2023 @05:51PM (#37385460)
Heh. I'd actually be super curious how much of a base linux system is still "actively maintained" by that metric. I gave up tilting at windmills trying to get the default whois clients in any of the major distros updated after a few months of trying.
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Re:MaraDNS: A small open-source DNS server by teddyh on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:48AM (#37388646)
I know that Debian, as a rule, removes packages which are not maintained “upstream”.

Regarding Whois clients specifically, it seems that Debian maintains its own Whois client: <https://github.com/rfc1036/whois> This is something which Debian usually does not do, and when it happens, it usually means that there is no updated maintained version available, but the software is too important to remove.

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