metacpan.org is a search engine, not canonical source

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi,

We advice at <https://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/policy.html> to use 
metacpan.org URL in watch file and - if not provided - as homepage.

We do not, however, advice about URL to provide as source in copyright 
file.

metacpan.org describes itself at <https://metacpan.org/about> as "an 
open source search engine for the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network 
(CPAN)", where that last "CPAN" is a link to <http://www.cpan.org/>.

To me that indicates that a) metacpan.org is an alternative to 
search.cpan.org but also that b) www.cpan.org is main host for CPAN, and 
therefore that the author-based URL at www.cpan.org should be treated as 
canonical source.

What do others think?


 - Jonas

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