diff --git a/doc/release-notes/rl-2611.section.md b/doc/release-notes/rl-2611.section.md
index 333747d6a40d..4cb16cd654be 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes/rl-2611.section.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes/rl-2611.section.md
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@
 
 - All databases of the MySQL family – `mysql`, `mariadb` and `percona` – now provide a client-only package `client` sub-attribute. Use the `<dbname>.client` package if the server components are not needed. The main package continues to ship the client binaries as well.
 
-- Package-URL (PURL, https://github.com/package-url/purl-spec) metadata identifier has been added for `fetchgit`, `fetchpypi` and `fetchFromGithub` fetchers.
+- Package-URL (PURL, https://github.com/package-url/purl-spec) metadata identifier has been added for `fetchgit`, `fetchpypi`, `fetchFromGithub` fetchers and to `buildPerlPackage`.
   `mkDerivation` has been adjusted to reuse this information.
   Package-URLs allow reliably identifying and locating software packages.
   Maintainers of derivations using the adapted fetchers should rely on the `drv.src.meta.identifiers.v1.purl` default identifier and can enhance their `drv.meta.identifiers.v1.purls` list once they would like to have additional identifiers.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/generic/default.nix b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/generic/default.nix
index 03dae50f7e99..54d30ebbc446 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/generic/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/generic/default.nix
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ lib.throwIf (attrs ? name)
       defaultMeta = {
         homepage = "https://metacpan.org/dist/${attrs.pname}";
         inherit (perl.meta) platforms;
+        identifiers.purlParts = {
+          type = "cpan";
+          spec = "${attrs.pname}@${attrs.version}";
+        };
       };
 
       package = stdenv.mkDerivation (