Dear Maintainer,

The currently packaged version of grepcidr no longer appears to see active development.
There is a fork available at <https://github.com/jrlevine/grepcidr3>, which seems to be maintained, and in my personal experience,
is slightly less quirky than the original version. See <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/697059/check-ip-in-cidr-list-with-grepcidr>
as one example of others sharing this view.

Would you consider switching the package to using this v3 fork instead?

Thanks.

Hi,

I checked the said fork to upgrade the Debian package.  Unfortunately the
new upstream has changed the license from GPL-2 to BSD-2-clause.  I asked
for clarification about this in

https://github.com/jrlevine/grepcidr3/issues/11

Kind regards
    Andreas.

Hi,

as I reported in issue

https://github.com/jrlevine/grepcidr3/issues/11

I do not consider the relicensing of code correct.  The author of the
fork disagrees and closed the issue.  I would like to escalate this
issue.

Kind regards
   Andreas.

Hi Ryan,

I understood you agree with maintaining grepcidr on Salsa and so I
migrated your repository to the Debian team space but left you as
Maintainer.  You can find all changes in Git at

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/grepcidr

Regarding the fork that was requested in bug #1013433:  I decided to
direct the watch file to this fork so it becomes obvious for the user
visiting tracker.debian.org that there might be a new version.  I would
love to see another user opinion in this bug report requesting the fork.

Hope this is all in your interest - if not just let me know and I'll
cancel the upload.

Kind regards
    Andreas.

Am Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 12:21:55AM +0000 schrieb Ryan Finnie (@rfinnie):