Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] Hi,
trovacap is an application that ships an offline list of all the Italian CAPs (that is, the Italian ZIP codes). The first problem is that upstream is long gone: the last release was done more than 10 years ago, and since then even the upstream web site vanished (apparently with no public code hosting nowhere else like github/gitlab/etc). The second, IMHO bigger issue, is that the list of known CAPs is shipped statically in the sources, and it was not kept up-to-date. Yes, there were changes in the CAPs in Italy in the last decade, at least 300 from from a quick search; while they don't seem too many compared to the list of municipalities, IMHO providing a wrong data to the user (especially for something important like sending mail) is not a good idea. Hence, I rather prefer to remove trovacap altogether than shipping an unmaintained and partially outdated application. CCing the maintainer for his opinion. Thanks, -- Pino
