Package: cdtool
Version: 2.1.8-release-8
Severity: normal
Justification: grave for the only tool that depends on it, but the rest of the 
cdtool package is unaffected

Dear maintainer,

The cdown command is for querying the database hosted on freedb.freedb.org, but
that hostname no longer resolves. Also, https://www.freedb.org/ now redirects to
gnudb.org, which has info on the server shutdown. The hostname is hardcoded
into the binary, and the tool works when given the command-line options
"-H gnudb.gnudb.org -P 8880".

This tool also has problems with non-ASCII characters, so personally I'll be
looking at switching to one of the rdeps of libcddb2 instead.

BR,
Steve

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages cdtool depends on:
ii  libc6  2.31-12

cdtool recommends no packages.

cdtool suggests no packages.

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