Giovanni Bechis wrote:
On 3/11/25 2:51 PM, Andreas Vögele wrote:
Philip Prindeville wrote:
What are other people doing now that MaxMind has deprecated Perl
support for their databases?
I'm the author of IP:Geolocation::MMDB, which is an API-compatible
replacement for MaxMind::DB::Reader. Packages are in Fedora, in
SUSE's devel:languages:perl repository and hopefully soon in Debian.
[...]
Patching GeoDB.pm is also trivial: [...]
+ @MaxMind::DB::Reader::ISA = qw(IP::Geolocation::MMDB); [...]
I think it would be better to add proper support for
IP:Geolocation::MMDB and later deprecate MaxMind::DB::Reader instead.
Proper support is needed for testing anyway. I'm testing SpamAssassin
with the following patch:
https://github.com/voegelas/spamassassin/commit/6a856743378af949f391d343e618bc5dedce169d?w=1&diff=split
The patched SpamAssassin accepts IP::Geolocation::MMDB as a
"geodb_module" option. Internally, "geoip2-mmdb" is passed to
load_geoip2 in GeoDB.pm. If no module has been configured, load_geoip2
tries to load MaxMind::DB::Reader and then IP::Geolocation::MMDB. The
files t/relaycountry.t and t/urilocalbl.t run the GeoIP2 tests with both
modules.
I've released new versions of IP::Geolocation::MMDB and
Alien::libmaxminddb. Both modules now work with Perl 5.14. The
dependency on Alien::Build is gone. From Perl 5.26 onward, only modules
that are distributed with Perl are used. Older Perl versions need to
update Math::BigInt, which is used for 128-bit integers. The operating
system's libmaxminddb library is used if pkg-config and libmaxmindb-dev
or libmaxminddb-devel are installed.
