Hi all Are there any objections to already document the change from search.cpan.org to metacpan.org in our Perl policy? I propose the attaced patch so that it might be used already for new packages. Regards, Salvatore
From 40544ac4fa14cf081910700cfbad9bc841080097 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 08:04:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Switch to metacpan.org URL Change search.cpan.org URL to respective metacpan.org counterpart. --- policy.pod | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/policy.pod b/policy.pod index f8f6053..7bdf2bc 100644 --- a/policy.pod +++ b/policy.pod @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ C<http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libsomething-perl.git>. The URL for this module's upstream homepage. For CPAN modules, unless the author has a specific homepage, you can point to -L<http://search.cpan.org/dist/Something/>. +L<https://metacpan.org/release/Something/>. =back @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ for a watch file for a typical module I<libfoo-bar-perl> hosted on CPAN is: version=3 # URL to the package page followed by a regex to search - http://search.cpan.org/dist/Foo-Bar/ .*/Foo-Bar-v?(\d[\d.-]+)\.(?:tar(?:\.gz|\.bz2)?|tgz|zip)$ + https://metacpan.org/release/Foo-Bar/ .*/Foo-Bar-v?(\d[\d.-]+)\.(?:tar(?:\.gz|\.bz2)?|tgz|zip)$ (Scanning the distribution-based CPAN URLs is usually much faster than scanning /(by-)module/ ones; author-based URLs become invalid as soon as -- 1.7.2.5
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