Am 27.12.2017 um 05:52 schrieb Faidon Liambotis: > Package: geoip-database-contrib > Version: 1.19 > Severity: normal > > Hi,
Hi, sorry for my late answer. This is on my todo list since a long long time.. > > libmaxminddb/geoipupdate/etc. maintainer here. This may be a bit of an > odd request: > > Have you considered dropping this package in favor of geoipupdate? > geoipupdate is shipped by MaxMind and is officially supported by them. > It has a lot more code, and is capable for much more than the shell > scripts that geoip-database-contrib ships. > > geoipupdate is capable of downloading both GeoIP Legacy and GeoIP2 > databases, as well as GeoLite and GeoLite2 databases at the same time, > so it's a suitable replacement for geoip-database-contrib's > functionality, that's also forward-looking. (GeoIP Legacy is deprecated > and an increasing amount of software are switching to GeoIP2.) > > I just uploaded geoipupdate 2.5.0-1 that includes: > * a configuration file, with only GeoLite2 enabled, but also with the > edition codes for GeoLite Legacy commented-out to ease a transition, > * a weekly cronjob, at the request of a user and inspired from > geoip-database-contrib's equivalent functionality. Since Geoip v1 is deprecated now and geoipupdate has nearly the same functionality I also would consider to remove it from sid+testing. > > All that said, a few caveats: > - (Debian's) geoipupdate uses /var/lib/GeoIP for the download location, > instead of /usr/share/GeoIP, which is/would be an FHS violation. But you could use a diversion/alternatives, if the user wants it, to your package? > > - Additionally, the actual filenames of the databases are going to be > different in some cases. geoipupdate names files according to what > MaxMind's servers instruct it to and has no option to rename. > > - Of the databases geoip-database-contrib ships, only one is not > available using geoipupdate: GeoLite ASN IPv6. I don't think it's > widely used, especially given that GeoLite IPv6 was and remained an > experiment (paid GeoIP IPv6 never existed). If you disagree, we can > always ask MaxMind to add it to their geoipupdate server and see what > they say. > > What do you think? Let me know if there are any ways I can help from the > geoipupdate side :) > If you also don't mind I would fill a RoM and you could provide this package after that. -- /* Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, Patrick Matthäi GNU/Linux Debian Developer Blog: http://www.linux-dev.org/ E-Mail: pmatth...@debian.org patr...@linux-dev.org */
