I know that Debian, as a rule, removes packages which are not maintained “upstream”. Regarding Whois clients specifically, it seems that Debian maintains its o

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 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.