Description of problem: To quote: http://perlhacks.com/2013/01/give-me-metacpan/ "Ever since MetaCPAN launched I’ve been getting increasingly irritated with people who still use links to search.cpan.org. Isn’t it obvious that MetaCPAN is better? Why do people still insist on sharing links to the older site? Of course they do it for various reasons. Perhaps they aren’t as in touch with the modern Perl world as I am. Perhaps they are wary about changing to use the new shiny toys because they know that a newer shinier one will be along soon. Perhaps I’m reading a web page from five years ago and they can be forgiven for not linking to a site that didn’t exist at the time." Fedora can do its bit to help this, by making cpanspec use metacpan.org instead of search.cpan.org for newly generated specfiles. Once cpanspec is updated, a bulk search-replace on all existing Fedora Perl specs may be considered. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cpanspec-1.78-12.fc18.noarch How reproducible: N/A
I might have picked a nicer quote if you are trying to win support, but eh, that's besides the point :). I hadn't heard of metacpan.org before this. doesn't show up in any google search I have run before. searched for info on it directly and looks like it was launched about 1.5 years ago. above is speaking as a cpanspec user...
now putting on my co-maintainer hat for cpanspec... cpanspec aims to make spec files that follwot the fedora perl packaging guidelines. So, I think your best first stop would be with the PERL SIG to get the standards changed. I checked and the guideliens still say you should use search.cpan.org: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Perl#URL_tag
Ah, I did not realize this was a part of the formatl packaging spec too. I'll look at raising that for discussion first, so guess this BZ can wait until that's resolved.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19
While metacpan.org's interface is awesome and I use it daily, the original cpan.org is still the main CPAN interface and content there may (and often does) differ from what metacpan.org gives you -- e.g. "unofficial" distribution releases often get mixed up with the "official" ones and such. I believe links in SPEC should point to cpan.org. There's no harm in that.
*** Bug 1220143 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***