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

[Jérémy Lal]

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.

Jérémy
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