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

Quoting Pirate Praveen (2017-05-22 16:10:32) > On തിങ്കള്‍ 22 മെയ് 2017 06:41 വൈകു, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> ...for the _initial_ packaging work. >> >> We are package *maintainers*. > > If you have not realized, we are discussing about maintaining an > existing package. I think you have also

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

On 2017-05-22 15:19, Jérémy Lal wrote: 2017-05-22 16:10 GMT+02:00 Pirate Praveen : On തിങ്കള്‍ 22 മെയ് 2017 06:41 വൈകു, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: ...for the _initial_ packaging work. We are package *maintainers*. If you have not realized, we are discussing about

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

2017-05-22 16:10 GMT+02:00 Pirate Praveen : > On തിങ്കള്‍ 22 മെയ് 2017 06:41 വൈകു, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > ...for the _initial_ packaging work. > > > > We are package *maintainers*. > > If you have not realized, we are discussing about maintaining an > existing

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

On തിങ്കള്‍ 22 മെയ് 2017 06:41 വൈകു, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > ...for the _initial_ packaging work. > > We are package *maintainers*. If you have not realized, we are discussing about maintaining an existing package. I think you have also not realized the meaning of team maintained packages. The

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

Quoting Pirate Praveen (2017-05-22 13:27:35) > On വെള്ളി 19 മെയ് 2017 03:45 വൈകു, Jérémy Lal wrote: >> There are complications to distributing npm: it depends on a LOT of >> modules, which means it requires a lot of debian-maintainer time to >> package, and update. > >

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

On വെള്ളി 19 മെയ് 2017 03:45 വൈകു, Jérémy Lal wrote: > There are complications to distributing npm: it depends on a LOT of > modules, which > means it requires a lot of debian-maintainer time to package, and update. https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Nodejs/Tasks/npm ie, roughly about 78 new

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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, but I don't see anything in your description that supports this. The

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

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