[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#763040: Bug#763040: npm: "npm help <cmd>" is broken

[Jérémy Lal]

Le samedi 27 septembre 2014 à 15:06 +0200, Tobias Hoffmann a écrit :
> Package: npm
> Version: 1.4.21+ds-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> npm help <cmd> is supposed to show the man page npm-<cmd>,
> but it only shows the list of more-or-less matching commands
> (which basically says: type "npm help <cmd>" to get more help).
> 
> AFAIK, "npm help install" looks for
>   /usr/share/npm/man/*/npm-install.1
> but not for
>   /usr/share/npm/man/*/npm-install.1.gz
> and as the former is not found by npm, npm help does not go on to
> call "man npm-install" (which would find the .gz file).
> 
> According to
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-javascript/npm.git/tree/debian/README.source
> the problem can be worked around by using appropriate symlinks,
> but the suggested links are not present in the debian package.

That's weird, i had an hallucination the day i committed
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-javascript/npm.git/commit/?id=d4ce91b7

I'll revert that, thank you for the report.

Jérémy.