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