[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1125269: Bug#1125269: npm on Debian sid is 3 years outdated

[Jérémy Lal]

Le dim. 11 janv. 2026 à 18:53, Alex Schwartz <alexschwartz01 at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Package: npm
> Version: 9.2.0~ds2-2
>
> npm on forky/sid (without Debian patches, npm 9.2.0) is a version from December 2022 - over 3 years ago.
>
> This leads to users making bug reports on npm GitHub repo that have already been fixed upstream potentially years ago.
>
> A side effect is that Fedora based distros become a better platform to use npm than Debian based distros (such as Ubuntu).
>
> If the package can't be upgraded, I believe the package should eventually be removed from forky/sid.
>
> It's something we should work on, indeed.

Two very good things would be having updated npm, and also pnpm (because
it's the best on linux).

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