`package.json` repository field

[joshkel]

Support plan

• is this issue currently blocking your project? (yes/no): no
• is this issue affecting a production system? (yes/no): no

Context

• node version: 14.19.3
• module version with issue: 7.0.0
• last module version without issue: unknown
• environment (e.g. node, browser, native): Node
• used with (e.g. hapi application, another framework, standalone, ...): N/A
• any other relevant information:

What are you trying to achieve or the steps to reproduce?

Vision's package.json's repository field is apparently incorrect. It says git://github.com/hapijs/vision; however, as far as I know, GitHub doesn't support the git:// URL scheme. Instead, it should be https://github.com/hapijs/vision.git.

What was the result you got?

Non-functioning repository

What result did you expect?

Usable repository

[Nargonath]

Can you elaborate on how this is impacting your workflow, please?

[joshkel]

yarn-plugin-outdated's purpose is to display a list of outdated NPM packages. As part of that, it parses packages' repository field so that it can display a link to information about changed packages.

Since Vision's repository is unusable, this feature of yarn-plugin-outdated doesn't work for it.

[Nargonath]

Alright, thank you for the details. We'd have to investigate more to know where the problem comes from. I believe git URLs to be valid but I may be wrong, so perhaps that's yarn-plugin-outdated that needs to be updated.

[joshkel]

Thanks for the reply.

It's my understanding that the git: protocol is rarely used, and it looks like GitHub removed support for it.

On the other hand, I'm taking a closer look at my node_modules tree now, and there are several git: URLs present. Maybe yarn-plugin-updated should be updated to handle those regardless.

[kanongil]

It could just be because git clone git://github.com/hapijs/vision fails:

Cloning into 'vision'...

fatal: unable to connect to github.com:
github.com[0: 140.82.121.3]: errno=Operation timed out

In any case it is an incorrect outdated repo link to include in the package.json, and should indeed be updated.

[kanongil]

FYI this is an issue across the hapijs ecosystem, and eg. hapi itself has a bad value.

It seems that inert is fine, since I apparently had the prescience to update it 5 years ago: hapijs/inert@dfcd066

[Nargonath]

We can also have it as:

{
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "https://github.com/hapijs/vision.git"
  }
}

As shown here: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/configuring-npm/package-json#repository.