Lintian tag: homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

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/

or

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

not:

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

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: fields/homepage

Affected packages

source version binary level tag count information
libapache-ssllookup-perl 2.00-04-4 libapache-ssllookup-perl/2.00-04-4+b4 warning homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 6 https://metacpan.org/release/GEOFF/Apache-SSLLookup-2.00_04
libapache-ssllookup-perl 2.00-04-4 libapache-ssllookup-perl/2.00-04-4+b5 warning homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 3 https://metacpan.org/release/GEOFF/Apache-SSLLookup-2.00_04
libapache-ssllookup-perl 2.00-04-4 warning homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 1 https://metacpan.org/release/GEOFF/Apache-SSLLookup-2.00_04
libcarp-fix-1-25-perl 1.000001-4 libcarp-fix-1-25-perl/1.000001-4 warning homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 1 https://metacpan.org/release/Carp-Fix-1_25
libcarp-fix-1-25-perl 1.000001-4 warning homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 1 https://metacpan.org/release/Carp-Fix-1_25
libgraphics-colorobject-perl 0.5.0-10.1 libgraphics-colorobject-perl/0.5.0-10.1 warning homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 1 http://search.cpan.org/~aizvorski/Graphics-ColorObject-0.5.0/ColorObject.pm
libgraphics-colorobject-perl 0.5.0-10.1 warning homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 1 http://search.cpan.org/~aizvorski/Graphics-ColorObject-0.5.0/ColorObject.pm
libpod-2-docbook-perl 0.03-4 libpod-2-docbook-perl/0.03-4 overridden homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 1 https://metacpan.org/release/Pod-2-DocBook
libpod-2-docbook-perl 0.03-4 overridden homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 1 https://metacpan.org/release/Pod-2-DocBook
libposix-2008-perl 0.26-1 libposix-2008-perl/0.26-1 overridden homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 9 https://metacpan.org/release/POSIX-2008
libposix-2008-perl 0.26-1 overridden homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 1 https://metacpan.org/release/POSIX-2008
libsearch-elasticsearch-client-1-0-perl 6.81-2 libsearch-elasticsearch-client-1-0-perl/6.81-2 overridden homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 1 https://metacpan.org/release/Search-Elasticsearch-Client-1_0
libsearch-elasticsearch-client-1-0-perl 6.81-2 overridden homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 1 https://metacpan.org/release/Search-Elasticsearch-Client-1_0
libsearch-elasticsearch-client-2-0-perl 6.81-1 libsearch-elasticsearch-client-2-0-perl/6.81-1 overridden homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 1 https://metacpan.org/release/Search-Elasticsearch-Client-2_0
libsearch-elasticsearch-client-2-0-perl 6.81-1 overridden homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 1 https://metacpan.org/release/Search-Elasticsearch-Client-2_0
libwww-shorten-5gp-perl 1.030-1.1 libwww-shorten-5gp-perl/1.030-1.1 warning homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 1 https://metacpan.org/release/WWW-Shorten-5gp
libwww-shorten-5gp-perl 1.030-1.1 warning homepage-for-cpan-package-contains-version 1 https://metacpan.org/release/WWW-Shorten-5gp