[Pkg-javascript-devel] Interested in updating npm to new upstream version

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2019, ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 6 10:43:48 PM IST, "Jérémy Lal" <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
>Le mar. 6 août 2019 à 18:30, Manas Kashyap <manaskashyaptech at gmail.com>
>a
>écrit :
>
>> Hello ,
>> I am Manas Kashyap, a Debian Contributor, I am looking for updating
>> the current npm version to new upstream version, i,e 6.10.2 according
>to
>> tracker https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/npm .
>> Thanking you
>> Manas Kashyap
>>
>
>Great ! A few things to check out:
>
>Current node module packaging practices:
>https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript
><https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/GroupSourcesTutorial>
>Bundling multiple node modules (applies very well to some npm
>dependencies):
>https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/GroupSourcesTutorial
>It would be a good idea (if not already done !) to migrate debian
>packages
>of existing npm modules and deps to pkg-js-tools:
>https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/pkg-js-tools/blob/master/doc/tools/README.md#readme

For npm itself, it comes bundled and we only remove those are already packaged,

https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/npm/blob/master/debian/copyright

Just double check there is no major version changes for packaged versions.

>Also in any case, please check how the upgrades affect reverse
>dependencies.
>I have no link about that.
>Anyone ?
>

For npm, only npm2deb uses it. I think we added some basic install tests as autopkgtest.
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