homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version

The Homepage field for this package points to CPAN and the URL includes the version. It's better to link to the unversioned CPAN page so that the URL doesn't have to be updated for each new release. For example, use:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Template/

https://metacpan.org/release/HTML-Template/

not:

http://search.cpan.org/~samtregar/HTML-Template-2.9/

The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163. That is the most recent version we know about.

We use semantic versions. The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the 2.114.0 release tag in our Git repository.

You can find the detection logic for this version at commit ea05801. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check fields/homepage.

Visibility: warning

The following 10 source packages in the archive triggered the tag 20 times (in any Lintian version).

We found 8 overrides. The tag performed 60% of the time.

libapache-ssllookup-perl

https://metacpan.org/release/GEOFF/Apache-SSLLookup-2.00_04
https://metacpan.org/release/GEOFF/Apache-SSLLookup-2.00_04

libaudio-scrobbler-perl

http://search.cpan.org/~roam/Audio-Scrobbler-0.01/lib/Audio/Scrobbler.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~roam/Audio-Scrobbler-0.01/lib/Audio/Scrobbler.pm

libcarp-fix-1-25-perl

https://metacpan.org/release/Carp-Fix-1_25
https://metacpan.org/release/Carp-Fix-1_25

libgraphics-colorobject-perl

http://search.cpan.org/~aizvorski/Graphics-ColorObject-0.5.0/ColorObject.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~aizvorski/Graphics-ColorObject-0.5.0/ColorObject.pm

libpod-2-docbook-perl

- # The '2' is part of the name.
https://metacpan.org/release/Pod-2-DocBook
- # The '2' is part of the name.
https://metacpan.org/release/Pod-2-DocBook

libposix-2008-perl

- # Version in URL is version of standard, not module, so okay
https://metacpan.org/release/POSIX-2008
- # Version in URL is version of standard, not module, so okay
https://metacpan.org/release/POSIX-2008

libsearch-elasticsearch-client-1-0-perl

https://metacpan.org/release/Search-Elasticsearch-Client-1_0
- # this module is intentionally version named and so it is its homepage
https://metacpan.org/release/Search-Elasticsearch-Client-1_0

libsearch-elasticsearch-client-2-0-perl

https://metacpan.org/release/Search-Elasticsearch-Client-2_0
- # this module is intentionally version named and so it is its homepage
https://metacpan.org/release/Search-Elasticsearch-Client-2_0

libsnmp-multi-perl

http://search.cpan.org/~tpg/SNMP-Multi-2.1/Multi.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~tpg/SNMP-Multi-2.1/Multi.pm

libwww-shorten-5gp-perl

https://metacpan.org/release/WWW-Shorten-5gp
https://metacpan.org/release/WWW-Shorten-5gp