[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#904422: Bug#904422: npm: complains about too-new nodejs

[Pirate Praveen]

On ചൊ, ഫെബ്രു 12, 2019 at 2:49 വൈകു, Olaf van 
der Spek <olafvdspek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Op di 12 feb. 2019 om 10:13 schreef Pirate Praveen 
> <praveen at onenetbeyond.org>:
>>  On ചൊ, ഫെബ്രു 12, 2019 at 2:34 വൈകു, Olaf 
>> van
>>  der Spek <olafvdspek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  > Could npm 6 be packaged?
>> 
>>  We won't be able to get it into buster (soft freeze starting today),
> 
>>   2019-02-12 Soft freeze (no new packages, no re-entry, 10 day 
>> migration)
> 
> It'd not be a new package would it?
> 

Starting 2019-02-12, only small, targeted fixes are appropriate for 
buster.

https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html

So we are not expected to upload new upstream releases.

>>  but we can try for buster + 1 or possibly buster-backports.
> 
> npm 6 has been available for some time..
> 

If that introduce any rc bugs, there won't be enough time to fix it and 
I don't want to risk it at this point.