The Norwegian FiksGataMi -site is build on Debian/Squeeze, and this platform was choosed because -I am most familiar with Debian (being a Debian Developer for around 10 -years) because it is the latest stable Debian release which should get -security support for a few years.
- -The web service is written in Perl, and depend on some perl modules -that are missing in Debian at the moment. It would be great if these -modules were added to the Debian archive, allowing anyone to set up -their own FixMyStreet clone -in their own country using only Debian packages. The list of modules -missing in Debian/Squeeze isn't very long, and I hope the perl group -will find time to package the 12 modules Catalyst::Plugin::SmartURI, -Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode::Encoding, Catalyst::View::TT, Devel::Hide, -Sort::Key, Statistics::Distributions, Template::Plugin::Comma, -Template::Plugin::DateTime::Format, Term::Size::Any, Term::Size::Perl, -URI::SmartURI and Web::Scraper to make the maintainence of FixMystreet -easier in the future.
- -Thanks to the great tools in Debian, getting the missing modules -installed on my server was a simple call to 'cpan2deb Module::Name' -and 'dpkg -i' to install the resulting package. But this leave me -with the responsibility of tracking security problems, which I really -do not have time for.
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