Bug#857986: npm: package is 3 years old (consider removal?)

[Jérémy Lal]

2017-07-04 12:44 GMT+02:00 Antonio Ospite :

> Removing npm could bring some more attention at packaging yarn[1,2],
> which seems to be better and more secure than npm (says a brief google
> search...).
>
> Ciao,
>Antonio
>
> [1] https://yarnpkg.com/en/
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843021


As you can see in the package status, npm is not in stable/testing suites:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/npm

Jérémy

Bug#857986: npm: package is 3 years old (consider removal?)

[Antonio Ospite]

Removing npm could bring some more attention at packaging yarn[1,2],
which seems to be better and more secure than npm (says a brief google
search...).

Ciao,
   Antonio

[1] https://yarnpkg.com/en/
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843021

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