Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#857986: npm: This pakcage is 3 years old? (consider removal)

2017-05-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 19.05.2017 12:15, Jérémy Lal wrote: > 2017-05-19 12:07 GMT+02:00 Riku Voipio > > > Are there any complications to building npm as part of nodejs package? I wouldn't do that - instead have separate packages: (patches already sent upstream) https://github.com/metux/nodejs

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#857986: npm: This pakcage is 3 years old? (consider removal)

2017-05-19 Thread Riku Voipio
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 12:15:32PM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > 2017-05-19 12:07 GMT+02:00 Riku Voipio : > > > 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

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#857986: npm: This pakcage is 3 years old? (consider removal)

2017-05-19 Thread Jérémy Lal
2017-05-19 12:07 GMT+02:00 Riku Voipio : > 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

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#857986: npm: This pakcage is 3 years old? (consider removal)

2017-05-19 Thread Riku Voipio
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? Riku -- Pkg-javascript-devel

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#857986: npm: This pakcage is 3 years old? (consider removal)

2017-03-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
Control: severity -1 grave Contraol: tags -1 stretch sid On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 12:50:11AM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: >... > I should have done this long before, but npm should not stay in testing: > - `npm install thisorthatmodule` is failing for a growing list of modules > - npmjs.org might drop

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#857986: npm: This pakcage is 3 years old? (consider removal)

2017-03-16 Thread Alex Henry
I actually did give a use case for this: try installing polymer as per the instruction given on my initial report. It just doesn't work, as Jeremy states. NPM is a growing, dynamic repository and you'll be hard pressed to find any major package that is 3 years old and 100% compatible with the

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#857986: npm: This pakcage is 3 years old? (consider removal)

2017-03-16 Thread Jérémy Lal
2017-03-17 0:30 GMT+01:00 Ben Finney : > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > Alex Henry wrote: >> Severity: grave >> Justification: renders package unusable > > Thank you for considering the severity of bug reports. You claim the > package is unusable in general,