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.
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