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

[Pirate Praveen]

On ചൊ, ഫെബ്രു 12, 2019 at 2:59 വൈകു, Olaf van 
der Spek <olafvdspek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Op di 12 feb. 2019 om 10:25 schreef Pirate Praveen 
> <praveen at onenetbeyond.org>:
>>  > 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.
> 
> Makes sense. 6 has been available since May though, right? Why wasn't
> it uploaded earlier?

npm was not updated for over 3 years and was removed from stretch. See 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870460

My motivation for updating it was for gitlab (I'd have been happy with 
even npm 1.4 as I only wanted 'npm install yarn' from npm) and 5.x was 
perfectly suitable, not only for my usecase but that was the latest 
upstream version at that time (5.8 is also available in 
stretch-backports). Now yarn (node-yarnpkg) is already packaged and I 
don't have any motivation to keep npm updated. Its a team maintained 
package and anyone is free to update it (just like how I updated it to 
5.x from 1.x). Is there any specific feature that you are looking for 
in npm 6?