[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#650345: Bug#650345: npm: please consider rewriting shebangs on the fly to refer to "nodejs" name

Jérémy Lal kapouer at melix.org
Fri Jan 25 22:02:44 UTC 2013


On 25/01/2013 22:26, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> found 650345 npm/1.1.4~dfsg-2
> quit
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Dominique Dumont wrote:
> 
>> # bug has been fixed by Jeremy and Jonas
> 
> Thanks for the heads up.  It doesn't seem to be fixed, though:
> 
>  $ npm install express
> [...]
>  $ head -1 node_modules/express/bin/express
>  #!/usr/bin/env node
>  $ dpkg-query -W npm
>  1.1.4~dfsg-2


All debian packages shipping nodejs executables have been fixed.
Files downloaded by npm are not modified.
It's up to the user to either install nodejs-legacy or symlink nodejs,
should he want to run executables installed by npm.

Do that last sentence should be added to npm's README.Debian ?

Jérémy.



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