Package: libnet-mac-vendor-perl Version: 1.25-1 Severity: wishlist On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 08:52:34PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > In general, I'm not thrilled about the way the module queries for the > OUI information over the web.
FWIW, it appears the new version of the module allows additional control and using a locally-cached copy of the data. So, perhaps the decision is being deferred to the application developer, who could then implement a different cache strategy or use /var/lib/ieee-data/oui.txt if present, which is automatically updated monthly. > I think we have lots of copies of the same > information in Debian already, most prominently in the ieee-data package. > > Does this module really make sense? Speaking as an application author, vendor information for MAC addresses is a useful feature. As a Perl application author, our "go-to" for implementing the feature was CPAN and thus Net::MAC::Vendor. As a Debian user and developer, having Debian include the modules in our Perl stack (and being able to contribute new modules and maintenance) is useful. So, from that perspective, a package for this module makes sense. If Debian dropped it, we'd have to maintain it in our repository, as would presumably others, so we might as well keep it in Debian and contribute together. We could consider a Debian-specific patch to Depend: on ieee-data and use /var/lib/ieee-data/oui.txt as the default data source instead of the web. Now that I think about it I'm very much warming up to this idea. -- Ivan Kohler President and Head Geek, Freeside Internet Services, Inc. http://freeside.biz/ Debian GNU/Linux developer | CPAN author | cat person | ski addict