I opened bug 272846 because net-misc/whois did not resolv .tel requests properly. And I think the problem could also exist in this package. I can not test it myself, but there is very high probability it is still broken like the other ones. Please, check how this package handles .tel requests. Thanks.
(In reply to comment #0) > Please, check how this package handles .tel requests. Thanks. I didn't check it. I seems that Net-XWhois isn't maintained. https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Net-XWhois lists a number of patches/bugs that weren't applied for a long time. No other package depends on Net-XWhois any more. So I mask it for removal.
(In reply to comment #1) AWStats plugin "hostinfo" needs this perl module to resolve IPs / domain names. With this one removed, no stats will be shown when hostinfo is activated. I see the point in arguing that an unmaintained package is never a good idea but it would break awstats despite not being a "real" dependency.
(In reply to comment #2) > > AWStats plugin "hostinfo" needs this perl module to resolve IPs / domain names. > With this one removed, no stats will be shown when hostinfo is activated. > > I see the point in arguing that an unmaintained package is never a good idea > but it would break awstats despite not being a "real" dependency. Looking at the buglist in comment #1 the hostinfo plugin isn't working well even if XWhois is installed.
Gone
