Bug#860142: libgeo-ip-perl: incompatible with geoip-database - cannot load

[gregor herrmann]

Control: retitle -1 libgeo-ip-perl: should recommend geoip-database and geoip-database-extra
Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tag -1 + pending

On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:18:36 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 22:31:52 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
> > > This means that all functions that use the country .dat should work,
> > > and for the city-needing functions one would either need to get the
> > > file from https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/ or convince
> > > the geoip-database maintainers to ship it (or them: ipv4 + ipv6) in
> > > the package a well.
> > 
> > Debian packages geoip-database-extra or geoip-database-contrib (the 
> > latter in contrib) should satisfy the need for city lookups (but I 
> > haven't tried).
> 
> Ha, indeed, thanks and sorry for missing this detail.
> 
> geoip-database-extra: /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPASNum.dat
> geoip-database-extra: /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat
> 
> 
> I guess libgeo-ip-perl could do with a recommends on geoip-database
> and geoip-database-extra (currently it only depends on libgeoip1
> which recommends geoip-database).

Fixed in git, changing the bug metadata accordingly.


Cheers,
gregor

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