[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#960284: npm tries to use git, but git is not listed in dependencies

[Nikolay Shaplov]

Package: npm
Version: 5.8.0+ds6-4+deb10u1
Severity: normal

I am following some HOWTO guide and run

# npm install matrix-appservice-irc --global

and it fails because git is missing

npm WARN npm npm does not support Node.js v10.19.0
npm WARN npm You should probably upgrade to a newer version of node as we
npm WARN npm can't make any promises that npm will work with this version.
npm WARN npm Supported releases of Node.js are the latest release of 4, 6, 7, 8, 9.
npm WARN npm You can find the latest version at https://nodejs.org/
npm WARN deprecated request at 2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm ERR! code ENOGIT
npm ERR! Error while executing:
npm ERR! undefined ls-remote -h -t ssh://git@github.com/matrix-org/node-irc.git
npm ERR!
npm ERR! undefined
npm ERR! No git binary found in $PATH
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed using git.
npm ERR! Please check if you have git installed and in your PATH.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-05-11T14_18_42_261Z-debug.log

I guess getting sources using git is a normal way for npm. Then I guess
git should be listed in 'depends' section for npm. Or at least in
'suggests'. But it is not listed at all.

As debian user I expect when I am installing a package, I get all things
that is needed for it's normal work. Here I it is not like that. So, can
you please fix it.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages npm depends on:
ii  ca-certificates                 20190110
ii  node-abbrev                     1.1.1-1
ii  node-ansi                       0.3.0-3
ii  node-ansi-regex                 3.0.0-1
ii  node-ansistyles                 0.1.3-1
ii  node-aproba                     1.2.0-1
ii  node-archy                      1.0.0-2
ii  node-bluebird                   3.5.1+dfsg2-2
ii  node-boxen                      1.2.2-1
ii  node-cacache                    11.3.2-2
ii  node-call-limit                 1.1.0-1
ii  node-chownr                     1.1.1-1
ii  node-config-chain               1.1.11-1
ii  node-detect-indent              5.0.0-1
ii  node-detect-newline             2.1.0-1
ii  node-editor                     1.0.0-1
ii  node-encoding                   0.1.12-2
ii  node-errno                      0.1.4-1
ii  node-from2                      2.3.0-1
ii  node-fs-vacuum                  1.2.10-2
ii  node-fs-write-stream-atomic     1.0.10-4
ii  node-glob                       7.1.3-2
ii  node-graceful-fs                4.1.11-1
ii  node-gyp                        3.8.0-6
ii  node-has-unicode                2.0.1-2
ii  node-hosted-git-info            2.7.1-1
ii  node-iferr                      1.0.2-1
ii  node-import-lazy                3.0.0.REALLY.2.1.0-1
ii  node-inflight                   1.0.6-1
ii  node-inherits                   2.0.3-1
ii  node-ini                        1.3.5-1
ii  node-is-npm                     1.0.0-1
ii  node-json-parse-better-errors   1.0.2-2
ii  node-jsonstream                 1.3.2-1
ii  node-latest-version             3.1.0-1
ii  node-lazy-property              1.0.0-3
ii  node-libnpx                     10.2.0+repack-1
ii  node-lockfile                   1.0.4-1
ii  node-lru-cache                  5.1.1-4
ii  node-mississippi                3.0.0-1
ii  node-mkdirp                     0.5.1-1
ii  node-move-concurrently          1.0.1-2
ii  node-nopt                       3.0.6-3
ii  node-normalize-package-data     2.4.0-1
ii  node-npm-package-arg            6.0.0-2
ii  node-npmlog                     4.1.2-1
ii  node-once                       1.4.0-3
ii  node-opener                     1.4.3-1
ii  node-osenv                      0.1.5-1
ii  node-path-is-inside             1.0.2-1
ii  node-promise-inflight           1.0.1-1
ii  node-promzard                   0.3.0-1
ii  node-qw                         1.0.1-1
ii  node-read                       1.0.7-1
ii  node-read-package-json          2.0.13-1
ii  node-request                    2.88.1-2
ii  node-resolve-from               4.0.0-1
ii  node-retry                      0.10.1-1
ii  node-rimraf                     2.6.2-1
ii  node-safe-buffer                5.1.2-1
ii  node-semver                     5.5.1-1
ii  node-semver-diff                2.1.0-2
ii  node-sha                        2.0.1-1
ii  node-slide                      1.1.6-2
ii  node-sorted-object              2.0.1-1
ii  node-ssri                       5.2.4-2
ii  node-stream-iterate             1.2.0-4
ii  node-strip-ansi                 4.0.0-1
ii  node-tar                        4.4.6+ds1-3
ii  node-text-table                 0.2.0-2
ii  node-uid-number                 0.0.6-1
ii  node-unique-filename            1.1.0+ds-2
ii  node-unpipe                     1.0.0-1
ii  node-validate-npm-package-name  3.0.0-1
ii  node-which                      1.3.0-2
ii  node-wrappy                     1.0.2-1
ii  node-write-file-atomic          2.3.0-1
ii  node-xdg-basedir                3.0.0-1
ii  nodejs                          10.19.0~dfsg1-1

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