CPAN-API/cpan-api — Issue #154: Distribution package names
Author: pwaring
Created: 2011-12-31 16:32:29+00:00
State: open

This is a feature request rather than a bug. It would be incredibly useful if the API had a way of returning the relevant package(s) for Linux distributions for those of us who prefer to use the packaged version instead of installing from CPAN. For example, Archive::Zip the Debian package is libarchive-zip-perl (and it might be possible to extract this programmatically from Debian's package database, since Perl modules have a consistent file name convention).