fix: "Dist" step failed in Jenkins with ELSPROBLEMS #2831
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The "Dist" step in the release process in Jenkinsfile was failing with
The part that was actually failing was 'npm ls --omit=dev --all --parseable'
in "gen-notice.sh" when run in a dist try that only has the non-dev deps
installed.
The issue was a too-old npm: node 16.15.0 includes npm 8.5.5, but we
require npm v8.7.0 to get support for 'npm ls --omit=dev ...'
(npm/cli#4744).
Initial discussion for this was on the PR for the 3.37.0 release here: #2830 (comment)
I wasn't able to reproduce this on my dev machine initially because (a) initially I'd been using node v16.15.1 which has a new-enough npm and (b) when I did attempt to repro with v16.15.0 I was foiled because at some point I had upgraded the npm version in my local node v16.15.0 (bad me).