Bug 23591

Summary: nodejs version is older than recommended
Product: Mageia Reporter: Mark Dawson Butterworth <mageia>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Joseph Wang <joequant>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: marja11, ouaurelien
Version: 6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: nodejs-6.10.3-2.mga6.src.rpm CVE:
Status comment:

Description Mark Dawson Butterworth 2018-09-18 11:07:00 CEST 
The version of Node.js we have in Mageia is 6.10.3.

The recommended version for use is now 8.12.0 (LTS) with the current version being 10.10.0.

Many common Node.js packages no longer work on the 6 series, so I request that Mageia either moves to the 8 series please, or deprecates the rpm so that folk know to either install from the Node.js site or use nvm instead.
Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2018-09-18 15:25:28 CEST 
Assigning to the registered maintainer.

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => joequant

Comment 2 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-16 18:40:22 CEST 
Mageia 6 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-09-30. It is no longer 
maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug 
fix updates.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan 
to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to 
a later Mageia version.

Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we 
weren't able to fix it before Mageia 6's end of life. If you are able to 
reproduce it against a later version of Mageia, you are encouraged to click 
on "Version" and change it against that version of Mageia.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent
Mageia release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them
obsolete.

If you would like to help fixing bugs in the future, don't hesitate to join the
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Best regards,
Aurélien
Bugsquad Team

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD
CC: (none) => ouaurelien