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

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 19.05.2017 12:15, Jérémy Lal wrote:

> 2017-05-19 12:07 GMT+02:00 Riku Voipio <riku.voipio at iki.fi>
> 
> > 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
https://github.com/metux/npm

Running in production on trusty, on devuan still testing.

> 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.

Yes, that's a ugly problem for the thousands of (usually non-stable)
nano-packages the nodejs subspace bubble.

I've taken the less ugly approach of just adding them as local deps to
the source tree. A working npm w/o any nodejs packages installed
doesn't seem so bad anyways, IMHO.


--mtx