From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:23:56 +0000 (+0000) Subject: New post on FiksGataMi. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/518dbd4e2543ddcafc035946ff929064943c0a6f?ds=inline New post on FiksGataMi. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2011-07-26-fiksgatami-debian.txt b/blog/data/2011-07-26-fiksgatami-debian.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a8ccd1f4ad --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/data/2011-07-26-fiksgatami-debian.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Title: Perl modules used by FixMyStreet which are missing in Debian/Squeeze +Tags: english, fiksgatami, debian +Date: 2011-07-26 12:25 + +

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.

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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.

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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.