On ചൊ, ഫെബ്രു 12, 2019 at 2:59 വൈകു, Olaf van
der Spek <olafvds...@gmail.com> wrote:
Op di 12 feb. 2019 om 10:25 schreef Pirate Praveen
<prav...@onenetbeyond.org>:
> npm 6 has been available for some time..
>
If that introduce any rc bugs, there won't be enough time to fix it
and
I don't want to risk it at this point.
Makes sense. 6 has been available since May though, right? Why wasn't
it uploaded earlier?
npm was not updated for over 3 years and was removed from stretch. See
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870460
My motivation for updating it was for gitlab (I'd have been happy with
even npm 1.4 as I only wanted 'npm install yarn' from npm) and 5.x was
perfectly suitable, not only for my usecase but that was the latest
upstream version at that time (5.8 is also available in
stretch-backports). Now yarn (node-yarnpkg) is already packaged and I
don't have any motivation to keep npm updated. Its a team maintained
package and anyone is free to update it (just like how I updated it to
5.x from 1.x). Is there any specific feature that you are looking for
in npm 6?
