[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Bug#921034: Depends on MaxMind GeoIP Legacy databases - superseded by GeoIP2

[Faidon Liambotis]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 04:36:45PM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote:
> The GeoIP module is a core module in NGINX upstream.  Keeping this in
> mind, it's just packaged here as a dynamic module.
> 
> For reference purposes, I have forwarded this bug report to nginx
> upstream's nginx-devel mailing list [1] for their response.
> 
> (Note that this is just me adding information, not adding anything 'new'
> to this discussion, as it is ultimately up to the maintainers to include
> a third party module or not here in Debian)

Thanks Thomas! Looking at that thread, upstream doesn't seem to have
issued a response.

That said, Debian is already shipping third-party modules in src:nginx,
under debian/modules. Would it perhaps be acceptable to the nginx
maintainers to include github:leev/ngx_http_geoip2_module in the source
package and include it as a separate binary package?

Whether we should continue to ship the geoip (legacy) module is
orthogonal in a way -- both can be shipped at the same time, although
I'd argue that this is no longer very useful.

Regards,
Faidon