On Thu, 24 May 2018 at 17:34, Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Looks great to me. > 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. And, as a comment on your guidelines change notes: (3) Moving to an https URL is good :-) My PR to cpanspec was accepted too - https://github.com/silug/cpanspec/pull/11 Cheers, Dave... _______________________________________________ perl-devel mailing list -- perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to perl-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/HYK6XRWUOVZQOOGCBJG5AMGN6SJEINSJ/
