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CPAN not supported

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
perl
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the OSS-Metadata failure with CPAN, using the example referenced in the issue and the attached screenshot as context. Inspect the OSS-Metadata entry point that handles package sources and identify the existing CPAN-related path. Done means OSS-Metadata processes CPAN successfully as listed in the example.

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Description

OSS-Metadata doesn't seem to work with CPAN despite it being listed as an example

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