[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#857986: npm: This pakcage is 3 years old? (consider removal)

[Riku Voipio]

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 12:15:32PM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> 2017-05-19 12:07 GMT+02:00 Riku Voipio <riku.voipio at iki.fi>:
> 
> > Jérémy Lal:
> > > To others, preoccupied that npm won't be available in debian:
> > > - please help with npm maintenance
> > > - hopefully we'll make an updated version installable through debian
> > backports
> >
> > Are there any complications to building npm as part of nodejs package?
> >

> There are complications to distributing npm: it depends on a LOT of
> modules, which
> means it requires a lot of debian-maintainer time to package, and update.
> Using the upstream nodejs tarball as source for npm or the upstream npm
> tarball
> does not change anything about that.

Ok, thanks for clarifying.

Riku