On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 03:51:53PM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> Am 07.08.2019 um 15:41 schrieb Colin Watson:
> > 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.
> 
> Geoip2 with the MMDB format is a different package.

As I said, "I don't mind whether they're in different binary packages".

> Also if I have to use the new sources now (since geoip v1 sources are
> not available anymore) it does not mean that src:geoip-database
> fullfils the MMDB format.

I don't understand that.  Please could you rephrase?  As far as I can
see you're already using the new sources.  Is the difficulty just in
building the MMDB files from the CSV files?

> IMO someone should start a new source package and provide all the new
> MMDB databases. I also had to drop now the city and asn edition here.

I guess I'm not completely opposed to attempting that, but it does seem
like a certain amount of duplicated effort.

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

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