Package: npm Version: 1.4.21+ds-2 Severity: normal
npm help <cmd> is supposed to show the man page npm-<cmd>, but it only shows the list of more-or-less matching commands (which basically says: type "npm help <cmd>" to get more help). AFAIK, "npm help install" looks for /usr/share/npm/man/*/npm-install.1 but not for /usr/share/npm/man/*/npm-install.1.gz and as the former is not found by npm, npm help does not go on to call "man npm-install" (which would find the .gz file). According to http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-javascript/npm.git/tree/debian/README.source the problem can be worked around by using appropriate symlinks, but the suggested links are not present in the debian package. Instead, /usr/share/npm/man itself is a symlink to /usr/share/man, where only .gz files are found. (Alternatively, npm could be patched to look for .gz man-pages, but this isn't currently done, either). -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-rc5-dirty (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages npm depends on: ii node-abbrev 1.0.4-2 ii node-ansi 0.3.0-2 ii node-ansi-color-table 1.0.0-1 ii node-archy 0.0.2-1 ii node-block-stream 0.0.7-1 ii node-fstream 0.1.24-1 ii node-fstream-ignore 0.0.6-2 ii node-github-url-from-git 1.1.1-1 ii node-glob 3.2.6-1 ii node-graceful-fs 2.0.0-2 ii node-gyp 0.10.10-2 ii node-inherits 2.0.0-1 ii node-ini 1.1.0-1 ii node-lockfile 0.4.1-1 ii node-lru-cache 2.3.1-1 ii node-minimatch 0.2.12-1 ii node-mkdirp 0.3.5-1 ii node-nopt 3.0.1-1 ii node-npmlog 0.0.4-1 ii node-once 1.1.1-1 ii node-osenv 0.0.3-1 ii node-read 1.0.4-1 ii node-read-package-json 1.1.3-1 ii node-request 2.26.1-1 ii node-retry 0.6.0-1 ii node-rimraf 2.2.2-2 ii node-semver 2.1.0-2 ii node-sha 1.2.3-1 ii node-slide 1.1.4-1 ii node-tar 0.1.18-1 ii node-underscore 1.4.4-2 ii node-which 1.0.5-2 ii nodejs 0.10.25~dfsg2-2 npm recommends no packages. npm suggests no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list Pkg-javascript-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel
