whois update to 4.7.27

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

whois 4.7.27 is out. But I can't update the port to it because it won't install:

$ port install whois
--->  Fetching whois
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for whois
--->  Extracting whois
--->  Applying patches to whois
--->  Configuring whois
--->  Building whois
--->  Staging whois into destroot
Error: Target org.macports.destroot returned: shell command " cd "/mp/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_net_whois/work/whois-4.7.27" && make install prefix=/mp/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_net_whois/work/destroot/mp DESTDIR=/mp/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_net_whois/work/destroot " returned error 2
Command output: install -d /mp/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_net_whois/work/destroot/mp/bin/
install -d /mp/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_net_whois/work/destroot/mp/share/man/man1/
install -m 0755 whois /mp/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_net_whois/work/destroot/mp/bin/
install -m 0644 whois.1 /mp/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_net_whois/work/destroot/mp/share/man/man1/
install -d /mp/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_net_whois/work/destroot/mp/bin/
install -d /mp/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_net_whois/work/destroot/mp/share/man/man1/
install -m 0755 mkpasswd /mp/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_net_whois/work/destroot/mp/bin/
install -m 0644 mkpasswd.1 /mp/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_net_whois/work/destroot/mp/share/man/man1/
cd po && make install-pos
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `install-pos'.  Stop.
make: *** [install-pos] Error 2

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
$

There seems to be a problem in the Makefiles. I've informed the author of whois and am waiting for assistance in resolving this.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Updated to 4.7.27 in r38566. I just disabled the "install-pos" make target to work around the above bug, so unfortunately this means that we now no longer have localizations. Maybe this can be fixed later.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

my conversation with the developer about this issue (quoting removed)

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The developer of whois is hostile towards bug reports and considers speaking with me about his software to be a waste of time. See attached conversation. As with the problems introduced with whois 4.7.26, he seems to continue to want us to patch his software to make it build, rather than fixing the problem at the source. I added a note to the portfile in r38578 advising that we leave the developer alone. I will not contact him again.

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