2017-10-26 21:25 GMT+02:00 Jérémy Lal <kapo...@melix.org>: > > > 2017-10-26 21:03 GMT+02:00 Sruthi Chandran <s...@disroot.org>: > >> On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:49:29 +0200 Jérémy Lal <kapo...@melix.org> wrote: >> > 2017-06-13 10:11 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Rossi <alexandre.ro...@gmail.com>: >> > >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > Any status update on this? Did the effort trying to release with >> > > embedded deps hit a wall? How can I help? >> > > >> > > >> > Right now npm 5 depends indirectly on both "request" and "got" modules, >> > which are doing exactly the same thing. Maintaining this requires an >> amount >> > of forgiveness i don't have right now. >> > >> > Anyway here's what you would want to do: >> > - start from an empty debian/copyright file (to avoid old dfsg >> repackagings) >> > - import new upstream tarball >> > - populate debian/copyright (including everything in node_modules as >> well), >> > it shouldn't be that difficult. >> > >> > With this approach the only maintenance burden will be to update >> > debian/copyright. >> > Next step will be up to ftpmasters to decide if it's okay to bundle >> > everything in >> > that particular case. >> > >> > Jérémy >> >> I was thinking of packaging npm (by packaging individual modules) >> working full-time for around one month. I plan to launch a crowd-funding >> campaign similar to ones launched for packaging grunt[1] and gulp[2]. >> Before going ahead with that, wanted to know the status of your plan of >> packaging npm. Is your plan still on or shall I go ahead with my plan? >> > > My plan depends on me being available in some parallel universe. > So YES please please please go ahead, may debian force be with you. > I might provide some help for technical issues. Or not, depending on > availability. > > Also note that besides usual packaging needs (like generating documentation), there is one trick in npm debian package: the global npmrc that contains prefix=/usr/local which in turn ensures npm install -g <module> goes to the right place.
Upstream is deaf to the argument that /usr is not the right prefix, and to the argument that there should be a well-known global path for npm configuration (other than /usr/etc/npmrc). The problem then is that npm i -g npm need a manual intervention to make sure that /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/npmrc is installed and contains prefix=/usr/local Without it, the default prefix of npm when installed in /usr/local is /usr/lib which is wrong and not writable of course. Jérémy
