[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1012372: Package needs new update, currently in a bitrot

[Nilesh Patra]

Package: node-webpack-merge
Version: 2.2.0-6
Severity: important

node-webpack-merge is at version 2.2.0 which was released in _2017_
The updatrem has moved to 5.8.0 which is several major versions ahead.
It is in a bitrot currently. It has only one rev-dep -- node-jsonld.

node-jsonld's package.json states that it needs 4.2.1 of webpack-merge[1].
It is also now breaking some packages (node-mermaid for instance) with webpack5 since
it expects webpack-merge to be updated accordingly.

There is, FWIW also another "please update it" BR about the same[2]

[1]: https://sources.debian.org/data/main/n/node-jsonld/4.0.1-1/package.json
[2]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1000247

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages node-webpack-merge depends on:
ii  node-lodash  4.17.21+dfsg+~cs8.31.198.20210220-8
ii  nodejs       16.13.2+really14.19.1~dfsg-6+b1

node-webpack-merge recommends no packages.

node-webpack-merge suggests no packages.