Changes/Replace jwhois with whois in Fedora Workstation

Replace jwhois package with whois for Fedora Workstation

Summary

Fedora Workstation product core group includes jwhois package. Replace it with whois package which is more actively developed.

Owner

• Name: Oğuz Ersen
• Email: <oguz@ersen.moe>

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora Linux 37
• Last updated: 2022-05-04
• devel thread
• FESCo issue: #2785
• Tracker bug: #2081764
• Release notes tracker: #830

Detailed Description

Fedora Workstation product core group includes jwhois package. Its last commit is from 2015. Users having issues with certain TLDs and the solution is usually manually editing the /etc/jwois.conf file. whois package is more actively maintained and doesn't have those issues.

Benefit to Fedora

Users will have a better experience querying whois information for a domain.

Scope

• Proposal owners:

• Other developers:

• Release engineering: #Releng issue number

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Alignment with Objectives:

How To Test

• Run rpm -q --whatprovides whois
• It should print whois-*

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)