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Provide OS and package information if the distribution is packaged #634

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This is similar to #154 and metacpan/metacpan-web#919.

Many CPAN distributions are available as packages for Linux distributions. This information would be useful to show on a distribution page on metacpan, and also through the API.

I have worked out the mapping for Debian, and this script produces a JSON file with the data.

I'd like to discuss the options for:

  • including the Debian package info in metacpan and API results (either by generating it on the metacpan infrastructure, or pulling it from my files)
  • a better, more useful format for the source data, if needed
  • come up with a general way for importing that metadata for other package systems (RedHat and Fedora RPM, ActiveState PPM, Arch pacman, Gentoo ebuild, etc)

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