Source: libpackage-locator-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Oleg Gashev Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), libmodule-build-perl Build-Depends-Indep: libcpan-distnameinfo-perl, libmoose-perl, libmoosex-markasmethods-perl, libmoosex-types-path-class-perl, libmoosex-types-uri-perl, libpath-class-perl, libtest-exception-perl, liburi-perl, libwww-perl Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libpackage-locator-perl.git Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libpackage-locator-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Package-Locator Package: libpackage-locator-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, libcpan-distnameinfo-perl, libmoose-perl, libmoosex-markasmethods-perl, libmoosex-types-path-class-perl, libmoosex-types-uri-perl, libpath-class-perl, liburi-perl, libwww-perl Description: module to find a package among CPAN-like repositories Package::Locator attempts to answer the question: "Where 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. . 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.