Re: Deprecated Perl support from Maxmind

Bill Cole <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Mar 2025 08:24:52 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 2025-03-12 at 07:47:34 UTC-0400 (Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:47:34 +0100)
 <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:

> On 3/11/25 2:51 PM, Andreas Vögele wrote:
>> Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>> What are other people doing now that MaxMind has deprecated Perl support for their databases?
>>
>> I'm the author of IP:Geolocation::MMDB, which is an API-compatible replacement for MaxMind::DB::Reader. Packages are in Fedora, in SUSE's devel:languages:perl repository and hopefully soon in Debian.
>>
>> I created the file MaxMind/DB/Reader.pm in my @INC path, which creates a subclass named MaxMind::DB::Reader. I've been using this work around for months with SpamAssassin:
>>
>>      use IP::Geolocation::MMDB;
>>      @MaxMind::DB::Reader::ISA = qw(IP::Geolocation::MMDB);
>>      1;
>>
>> Patching GeoDB.pm is also trivial:
>>
>>      --- a/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/GeoDB.pm
>>      +++ b/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/GeoDB.pm
>>      @@ -218,4 +218,7 @@ sub load_geoip2 {
>>         eval {
>>           require MaxMind::DB::Reader;
>>      +  } or eval {
>>      +    require IP::Geolocation::MMDB;
>>      +    @MaxMind::DB::Reader::ISA = qw(IP::Geolocation::MMDB);
>>        } or do {
>>           my $err = $@;
>>
> I think it would be better to add proper support for IP:Geolocation::MMDB and later deprecate MaxMind::DB::Reader instead.

+1

Screwing with the namespace to make it look like an abandoned module is available and in use when it is not isn't a precedent we want to set. That way lies madness.


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