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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