Bug#294621: xwhois: server file is not found, program won't start

tag 294621 patch thanks An earlier maintainer of this package overrode the default location of xwhois.servers, defined by the XWHOIS_SERVERS macro, by editing the confgiure script. Re-running autoconf erased that change, since configure.in had the original default. I think a reasonable way to

Bug#294621: xwhois: server file is not found, program won't start (same problem as in bug #43467)

Package: xwhois Version: 0.4.2-6 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable # apt-get install xwhois $ xwhois Could not open xwhois server file '/usr/share/xwhois/xwhois.servers'! $ echo this did not work $ cp /etc/X11/xwhois/servers ~/.xwhois.servers $ xwhois $ echo Now it works!