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, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
