[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#917217: npm breaks other packages' bash-completion

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: found -1 5.8.0+ds-1
Control: found -1 5.8.0+ds6-3

On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 18:57:42 +0100 Ralf Jung <post at ralfj.de> wrote:
> In any case it seems like npm updates don't properly upgrade/remove the file in
> /etc, because I had an up-to-date npm and still had those lines in there (and I
> never locally edited that file, so I should have gotten all upgrades).

I can confirm this.

You probably just need to add debian/npm.maintscript containing this one
line:

rm_conffile /etc/bash_completion.d/npm 5.8.0+ds6-4~


Andreas