On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:25:09PM +0200, Giovanni Bechis wrote: > Il 28 giugno 2019 22:09:10 CEST, Henrik K <[email protected]> ha scritto: > >On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:01:17PM +0200, Giovanni Bechis wrote: > >> Hi, > >> latest Geoip2 Perl library has this phrase in their docs: > >> ----------------------------------------- > >> This module is deprecated and will only receive fixes for major bugs > >and security vulnerabilities. New features and functionality will not > >be added. > >> ----------------------------------------- > >> I fear that Perl will not be supported in the near future and we will > >have to drop Geoip2 support sooner or later. > > > >Nothing makes me believe that the module will stop working, it clearly > >says > >it will be supported enough to be in a working state. There's no > >reason why > >they would suddently change the standard MMDB file format and contents, > >if > >they did that, no API would work. > > That's just a heads-up, I think the module will continue to work as-is, > but if there are better alternatives they can be evaluated, perl-Geoip2 is > also not present in main Linux distribution akaik.
Yes it's quite sad state for main distributions, there aren't really any packages that simply can be installed and provide automatically updated IPv4/IPv6 databases. Though the old GeoIP database is still not _that_ old.
