[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#925517: Bug#925517: Non-NSA/Microsoft upstream repo, new version

[Xavier]

Le 26/03/2019 à 19:04, Jeffrey Cliff a écrit :
> 2.0.0 was the version when Microsoft captured Github.  That's the newest
> one I have, but thankfully that's as new as is needed by the version of
> eslint in RFP.
> 
> I prefer to do my contributions anonymously.  I am not the author.
> 
>> Following https://www.npmjs.com/package/progress, repo is
> https://github.com/visionmedia/node-progress.
> 
> Indeed, it does go to NSA/Microsoft's walled garden.
> 
>> There is de debian/ dir in your repo, why ?
> 
> I can remove that

>> So if you're upstream author, I suggest you to publish a 2.0.4 in
>> npmjs.com with new repo in your package.json, then we could safely
>> change debian/watch.

I won't update anything unless you publish a new version accepted by
npmjs.com: it will prove that you've some rights on node-progress.

Debian can't accept an hostile takeover. If you're not upstream, you can
publish your fork under another name.