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

[Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org>]

2017-05-19 12:07 GMT+02:00 Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>:

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?

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.

Using the upstream nodejs tarball as source for npm or the upstream npm tarball

does not change anything about that.

Jérémy