Bug#707917: ITP: libpackage-locator-perl -- module to find the distribution that provides a given package

[Oleg Gashev <oleg@gashev.net>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Oleg Gashev <oleg@gashev.net>

* Package name    : libpackage-locator-perl
  Version         : 0.006
  Upstream Author : Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@imaginative-software.com>
* URL             : https://metacpan.org/release/Package-Locator/
* License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : module to find the distribution that provides a given package

 Package::Locator attempts to answer the question: "Where can I find a
 distribution that will provide this package?" The answer is divined by
 searching the indexes for one or more CPAN-like repositories. If you also
 provide a specific version number, Package::Locator will attempt to find a
 distribution with that version of the package, or higher. You can also ask to
 find the latest version of a package across all the indexes.
 .
 Package::Locator only looks at the index files for each repository, and those
 indexes only contain information about the latest versions of the packages
 within that repository. So Package::Locator is not BackPAN magic -- you
 cannot use it to find precisely which distribution a particular package (or
 file) came from.