November 2019 Archives

Perl5 CPAN Module Metadata Best Practices

When I started working at SUSE, one of the first things I worked on is the maintenance of the perl modules repository in the openSUSE Build Service (OBS).

We are using a tool called cpanspec to create .spec files from CPAN modules. From the spec file, the OBS then builds rpm packages.

I noticed there are a lot of modules missing information, or having other problems that prevent us from automatically create a working .spec file.

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