[Pkg-javascript-devel] Looking for help in updating npm to new usptream version

[Xavier]

Le 17/08/2019 à 16:31, Manas Kashyap a écrit :
> i have successfully applied the npm-clean-module part in debian/rules
> file , and for node-gyp i see it as a dependency , so do i need to
> remove it from dependency ? and then why do i need to update copyright ? 

Remove it from sources, not from deps. For d/copyright, lintian shows
that some entries are not needed (removed modules). Launch a `git grep
-i copyright` and looks if all is OK

> On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 7:46 PM Manas Kashyap
> <manaskashyaptech at gmail.com <mailto:manaskashyaptech at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Remove node-gyp from dependency ?
> 
>     On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 12:32 PM Xavier <yadd at debian.org
>     <mailto:yadd at debian.org>> wrote:
> 
>         Le 11/08/2019 à 18:30, Manas Kashyap a écrit :
>         > Hola, 
>         > I am Manas Kashyap, a Debian contributor and currently, I am
>         working on
>         > updating npm to newer version i,e, 6.10.3. 
>         > Currently the work focus on removing the packages from
>         node_modules
>         > folder, i,e the modules which are available in Debian archive
>         to be
>         > removed from the embedded packages and add it in the
>         dependency list of
>         > the package, current work you can view in my forked repo of
>         > npm https://salsa.debian.org/Manas-kashyap-guest/npm . 
>         > As, the list is really big and there are many embedded modules
>         which are
>         > already packaged, so looking for more contributors to help in
>         updating npm. 
>         > Thank you 
>         > Manas Kashyap
> 
>         Remove also node-gyp, update debian/copyright and apply my
>         patches. Then
>         push an MR to js-team/npm so that we can work together.
> 
>         Cheers,
>         Xavier
>