On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Evgeni Golov <evg...@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:01:11 +0000 mezgani ali wrote:
>
> > I setup the License field in the pkg-info file, also i did some change to
> > setup.py.
> > those are the changes that i maked to the upstream source.
> > and i think that was not really necessary.
> >
> > The orig.tar.gz looks to be the same as the original upstream tarball.
>
> Had a brief look at the diff, shouldn't be necessary at all here.
> And if you want to have modifications to upstream source, please use a
> patchsystem like quilt (or dpatch, but I prefer quilt), don't chage the
> orig.tar.gz
> The newly uploaded version with the clean tarball builds fine and I
> cant find any differences in behaviour or something.
>
I'll use quilt, if it is God's will  ;)

>
> > > Said that, I see no more problems with the package, and would upload it
> > > as soon you exchange the tarball.
>
> So, anything more you want to change or to know? If not, I'll upload :)
>
 No, i don't have any change, you can upload, thanks

>
> > There is rwhois (https://sourceforge.net/projects/rwhois/) a recursive
> whois
> > client that
> > can parse records into usable objects, but i never use it and it seems to
> be
> > outdated because
> > last update was the 23th April, 2003.
>
> Aye, I know rwhois, but its... incomplete and outdated, yeah.
>
> > You know Evgeni this is a nice idea and must to be translated to a
> serious
> > project
> > "developing whois python lib"  :)
> > and python miss this module.
>
> Great, do you have some free time? ;)
> Nah, joking, I guess I'd have to do this by myself when I really need
> it, until then, the good old whois(1) on the command line is enough :)


Of course command line is and still the reference for any usage,
but when i need whois in my python applications i use a basic client
that bind a socket and connect to port 43, that's all

Anyway I'll add python-whois to my todo list :)


> Regards
>
> --
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> Bruce Schneier can tune an antenna by whistling the desired resonant
> frequency.
>

-- 
Ali MEZGANI
Network Engineering/Security
http://securfox.wordpress.com/

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