Bug#956261: ITP: node-ip-address -- library for parsing IPv4 and IPv6 IP addresses in node and the browser

[merkys@debian.org]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : node-ip-address
  Version         : 6.3.0
  Upstream Author : , Beau Gunderson <beau@beaugunderson.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/beaugunderson/ip-address
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: JavaScript
  Description     : library for parsing IPv4 and IPv6 IP addresses in
node and the browser
 ip-address is a library for validating and manipulating IPv4 and IPv6
 addresses in JavaScript.
 .
  * Parsing of all IPv6 notations
  * Parsing of IPv6 addresses and ports from URLs with
'Address6.fromURL(url)'
  * Validity checking
  * Decoding of the Teredo information in an address
  * Whether one address is a valid subnet of another
  * What special properties a given address has (multicast prefix, unique
    local address prefix, etc.)
  * Number of subnets of a certain size in a given address
  * Display methods
    * Hex, binary, and decimal
    * Canonical form
    * Correct form
    * IPv4-compatible (i.e. `::ffff:192.168.0.1`)
  * Works in node and the browser (with browserify)
  * ~1,600 test cases

node-ip-address is required to package shiny-server.

Remark: This package is to be maintained with Debian Javascript
Maintainers at
   https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-ip-address