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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,
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Am 24.08.2019 um 16:31 schrieb Changwoo Ryu:
> 2019년 8월 24일 (토) 오후 7:56, Changwoo Ryu <[email protected]>님이 작성:
>> Please clarify about dropping the extra databases.
>>
>> So dropping extra city/ASN databases is because their upstream sources
>> are now shipped in separate ZIP files. And you don't want to maintain
>> these databases in new source packages. Am I correct? I just want to
>> know what to do for those who still need those databases.
> Now I understand the situation after checking #918709. IMO the
> conversion script should be enhanced to work on the extra databases.
You are welcome to write patches for it. I am not interested in doing
this extra work for the legacy databases, which are rarely used.
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