2018-01-24 8:14 GMT+01:00 Diane Trout <di...@ghic.org>: > Hello, > > I was looking to update zotero, which needs a newer npm. > > I was curious, so I tried building a npm using upstream's 5.6.0, and I > have something that almost installs & runs
. > > npm maintenance needs a lot of help, great ! > Several dependencies are out of date in Debian, and there's still a > fair number of node_modules that don't seem to have a corresponding > Debian package. > This is the main part of the job. So many dependencies are typically "for npm use only", so it'd be nice to use uscan/multiple tarballs features to package them together. I don't have that time right now. Would it be worth sharing these changes? How would you prefer to > receive / review them? There's a few issues I avoided that need some > discussion. (Like they embed a copy of node-gyp, and several scripts > hard code relative paths to that copy) > Sure ! You could work on a branch of npm pkg-javascript repository, and ask me for reviewing it and merging it. If all goes well, after that first review, you'll work directly on master branch. I wanted to get in touch with people in the javascript team before > slogging through updating the copyright file. > That's also something quite time-consuming. Jérémy
