On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 13:13:51 +0000 shanavas@disroot.org wrote:
> All npm modules should have a package.json.
> 
> The issue is npm2deb retrieves module source from git repo instead of npm registry.
> 
> This will be fixed with #842465 (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842465)

But npm tarballs does not always contains tests. We should run tests to
be able to update its dependencies (See
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840213).

So npm dist tarballs should be used only when tags are missing in the
repo and not the default. Usually the upstream authors are very
responsive to requests for updating tags page.