X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/dea6da240a6f47f265fcbd58169c26e64d3b9e65..9c8785b9d94b8c20d237adc1091513e49f702f2a:/blog/archive/2011/07/07.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2011/07/07.rss b/blog/archive/2011/07/07.rss index c1013e75dc..9688117d5b 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2011/07/07.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2011/07/07.rss @@ -103,5 +103,38 @@ jeg tror bidrar til å holde ekstreme holdninger i sjakk.</p> + + Perl modules used by FixMyStreet which are missing in Debian/Squeeze + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Perl_modules_used_by_FixMyStreet_which_are_missing_in_Debian_Squeeze.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Perl_modules_used_by_FixMyStreet_which_are_missing_in_Debian_Squeeze.html + Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:25:00 +0200 + +<p>The Norwegian <a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</A> +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.</p> + +<p>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 <a href="http://www.fixmystreet.com">FixMyStreet</a> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + + +