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

[Olaf van der Spek]

Op di 12 feb. 2019 om 11:15 schreef Pirate Praveen <praveen at onenetbeyond.org>:
> 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?

No, it's just the noise regarding nodejs version that I'd like to avoid.

In general it's nice to have the latest stable versions in a release
though, as in other cases you do hit bugs or features that aren't
available due to an older version being present.


-- 
Olaf