2017-05-19 12:07 GMT+02:00 Riku Voipio <riku.voi...@iki.fi>: > Jérémy Lal: > > To others, preoccupied that npm won't be available in debian: > > - please help with npm maintenance > > - hopefully we'll make an updated version installable through debian > backports > > Are there any complications to building npm as part of nodejs package? >
There are complications to distributing npm: it depends on a LOT of modules, which means it requires a lot of debian-maintainer time to package, and update. Using the upstream nodejs tarball as source for npm or the upstream npm tarball does not change anything about that. Jérémy
