On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 10:55:02AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> See
https://log.perl.org/2018/05/goodbye-search-dot-cpan-dot-org.html
>
> This means that the URLs included in RPMs of CPAN modules will need to
> change to MetaCPAN URLs.
>
> Please let me know if I can be any help making this happen.
>
I can mass update spec files for all Perl packages. I submitted this
Fedora 29
change request <
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Perl_Move_to_
MetaCPAN>
and this packaging guidelines request
<
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/770>.
If it is approved, I will try to do that before Perl 5.28 mass rebuild so
that the change becomes visible in Fedora 29 release.
I propose rewriting both URL and Source tags like this:
-URL:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPANPLUS/
+URL:
https://metacpan.org/release/CPANPLUS
-Source0:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BI/BINGOS/CPANPLUS-%{
cpan_version}.tar.gz
+Source0:
https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/B/BI/BINGOS/
CPANPLUS-%{cpan_version}.tar.gz
Are you fine with it?
While the old addresses will probably work, I believe it makes sense to
update
them because:
(1) The less intermediary steps to the final location, the better. (Fewer
things can get broken.)
(2) It's good when a user see the same address in RPM and in his web
browser.
The changes look good to me. However, the source URL does not really need
to be updated (it will still mirror the file);
is. If there is any source URL using the
. ->
. or