Package: npm Version: 1.4.21+ds-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Sorry for opening such a non-standard bug report but this page leads me to believe that the most up-to-date version we have for this package on Debian is from 2014 (see changelog on the menu on the right side of the screen): https://packages.debian.org/sid/npm I don't see any indication anywhere that there is a reason or justification for this. Node.js and NPM have become standard tools for web development and the *extremely outdated* version proved by this package siomply doesn't work anymore. I suggest this package be entirely removed to avoid well-meaning users from comiong across all sorts of bugs and errors while using npm due to a lack of update in what has become an essential tool. If Debian maintainers can't keep this up-to-date, this package being here probably does more harm than good to your average user who expects it to "Just Work". I wouldn't say this if I didn't know for a fact that this outdated version simply doesn't work anymore with the package.json files that are on the NPM repository (try installing polymer, for example: npm install -g polymer ). Node.js provides a single package (for Node and NPM) in their own repository. I'm not sure if any efforct can be done to bring this package version into Debian's repositories but if that's not possible, I believe that having a 3-year old version is doing more harm than good and that it is better for Debian not to offer such - and have users install from the official repository instead or from the website Linux download. Repository insall instructions https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions Simple download from website https://nodejs.org/en/ Again, I doubt this years-old package here is doing any good for most users, and I imagine it's doing more harm since people might not even noticed their NPM tool is extremely outdated, which will obviously lead to hard to understand errors. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages npm depends on: pn node-abbrev <none> pn node-ansi <none> pn node-ansi-color-table <none> pn node-archy <none> pn node-block-stream <none> pn node-fstream <none> pn node-fstream-ignore <none> pn node-github-url-from-git <none> pn node-glob <none> pn node-graceful-fs <none> pn node-gyp <none> pn node-inherits <none> pn node-ini <none> pn node-lockfile <none> pn node-lru-cache <none> pn node-minimatch <none> pn node-mkdirp <none> pn node-nopt <none> pn node-npmlog <none> pn node-once <none> pn node-osenv <none> pn node-read <none> pn node-read-package-json <none> pn node-request <none> pn node-retry <none> pn node-rimraf <none> pn node-semver <none> pn node-sha <none> pn node-slide <none> pn node-tar <none> pn node-underscore <none> pn node-which <none> ii nodejs 7.7.3-1nodesource1~jessie1 npm recommends no packages. npm suggests no packages. -- Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list Pkg-javascript-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel
