Bug#416479: libnet-domain-tld-perl: two-level-domains are missing

[Gunnar Wolf]

gregor herrmann dijo [Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 11:50:56PM +0100]:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:27:56 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> 
> > Today upstream has announced that support for second level domains will be
> > added soon and propably as a separate module.
> > 
> > Cf. http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=25891
> 
> And now upstream has closed the bug with a very short comment.
> 
> I'm still hesitant to patch the module in Debian; opinions from the
> pkg-perl group?

Umh...

I'd really tag it 'wontfix'.

If at all, as noted in your CPAN bug report, a new module
(Net::Domain::SLD?) (sh|c|w)ould be created to handle them; the main
differentiating factor IMHO is that TLDs are authoritatively defined
and handled, whereas SLDs (or call them as you wish) are quite
arbitrary. Many countries do define SLDs, but fail to properly enforce
them (i.e. in Mexico you cannot get a .mx anymore, but as my
University got its domain name back in 1989, it's called unam.mx - and
I've seen the same happen in many other places).

Greetings,

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