[Pkg-javascript-devel] Remove package node-uuid? (Was: Update package node-uuid?)

[W. Martin Borgert]

Hi,

in fact, uuid is already in Debian, even the relatively recent
version 3.2.1, but embedded in the npm package. #895625 can just
be closed, I assume.

Only the depends in node-request and the build depends in
node-http-signature need to be changed from node-node-uuid to npm.
Also, yarnpkg and libjs-jingle-session would need to depend on
npm.

Or shall we instead remove uuid from npm and let it depend on
node-uuid? npm is 275 times larger than node-node-uuid.

Minor points:

 - node-request has the latest and freshest uuid release 3.3.2
   included in it's source package

 - npm contains uuids README.md, which should be build from its
   source README_js.md using runmd (no ITP/RFP yet)

 - `require('uuid')` is deprecated and should be replaced with
   `require('uuid/[v1|v3|v4|v5]')` in node-request

 - who needs libjs-node-uuid? can we drop the binary package?

TIA & Cheers