Hi, We got the following bug report about Geo-IPfree in the Debian bug tracker. It would be nice if you can comment on it.
The ifull bug log and the attachments it talks about are at http://bugs.debian.org/505736 Brian Cassidy also offered to take ofer the maintenance of Geo-IPfree and take care to update its database. Please say if this is fine with you. Thank you, Damyan Debian Perl Group ----- Forwarded message from Claus Herwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Subject: Bug#505736: Geo::IPfree country data is outdated and incorrect Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:05:36 +0100 From: Claus Herwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 SeaMonkey/1.1.12 To: submit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Claus Herwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: libgeo-ipfree-perl Version: 0.2-6 Severity: normal Tags: patch The country data file provided with Geo::IPfree /usr/share/perl5/Geo/ipscountry.dat is extremly outdated and incorrect. So please include an uptodate country data file. Attached you'll find three files: - webgeo2ipct.pl converts an freely available uptodate GPL'ed country database to Geo::IPfree's ipscountry.dat. You can get the required source database file anytime from http://software77.net/cgi-bin/ip-country/geo-ip.pl - README.database is the licence file that comes with this source database - ipscountry.dat is an uptodate generated file as of 14/11/2008 My suggestion would be to replace the file in /usr/share/perl5/Geo with the uptodate version and provide the old version together with the conversion script and licence file in /usr/share/doc/libgeo-ipfree-perl/examples. I consider this a bug and not a wishlist item because - packaged ipscountry.dat (27/3/2003) is over five years old and contains approx. 30'000 records compared to an uptodate file with about 90'000 records. - For roughly 30% of all allocated IPv4 address ranges in the world the allocation was changed in the last five years. - libgeo-ipfree-perl is suggested by packages like awstats. If you use it for logfile analysis you get seriously wrong data. For example: After doing some tests for myself I'd estimate Geo::IPfree gets it wrong for about 50-80% of web traffic in Western Europe. This IMHO renders the package quite useless in its current state. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- dam JabberID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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