Am 07.08.2019 um 15:41 schrieb Colin Watson: > Package: geoip-database > Version: 20181108-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > Thanks for fixing #885442. I see that you did so by converting the new > databases into the old format. Presumably this was in order to maximise > compatibility, and I don't object to that. However, it has a few > problems: > > * Only the country-level databases are shipped. Regarding the others > that used to be in geoip-database-extra, in your changelog you said > "the sources are dropped from the homepage", which I don't quite > understand because there seem to be CSV files for all of City, > Country, and ASN on https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/ > (notwithstanding Faidon's comment that the MMDB files may in fact be > the preferred form for modification anyway). But it means that some > users may be out of luck. > > * We're stuck using old client code to query them. Ideally I'd much > prefer to be using versions of client libraries that are still > maintained upstream, and that generally means using the ones that > expect MMDB input. > > * As I understand it, the old format requires shipping separate files > for IPv4 and IPv6 (at least that's how they're shipped in > geoip-database at the moment). It would be much more convenient to > just open a single database and get results for both IPv4 and IPv6 > addresses. > > Could you please ship the MMDB files as well? I don't mind whether > they're in different binary packages, although long-term I would expect > most people to want to use the modern format. > > Thanks,
Geoip2 with the MMDB format is a different package. Also if I have to use the new sources now (since geoip v1 sources are not available anymore) it does not mean that src:geoip-database fullfils the MMDB format. IMO someone should start a new source package and provide all the new MMDB databases. I also had to drop now the city and asn edition here. -- /* 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 */
