Head of develop will not build: corrupt tarballs and mysterious invalid version messages

[JohnThomson]

This issue is a Bug

Expected Behaviour

I expect that following the instructions in the MD file, like this:
git clone --recursive -b develop https://github.com/readium/readium-js-viewer.git readium-js-viewer
cd readium-js-viewer
git checkout develop && git submodule foreach --recursive "git checkout develop"
npm run prepare:all

Will complete without fatal errors and result in a usable system that can be tested with npm run http.

Observed behaviour

Instead, I get the following errors: many warnings about deprecation, and then
npm WARN tarball tarball data for jquery-sizes@git+ssh://[email protected]/readium/jquery-sizes.git#d26d2510d069f84a64052c443a06b8534c5e9d0e (sha512-l2fcLLlCSYeWGPdGeWnadY/REi/qshKzwGwVvL89TGzDqh52vGZFgZPt7qeI2Clxq1c9EGuflWRtChS5HN4TMw==) seems to be corrupted. Trying again.
npm WARN tarball tarball data for css-element-queries@git+ssh://[email protected]/readium/css-element-queries.git#ca32ace3aecb9e05fcfef0c6d3d33a4d2bde3312 (sha512-yv5N3bSzfwZu2NP3vgc9r6AbbbdOJHbm6GTw+Hds7HULlufIrKyuBIipAOBA+2VkJE65cKlhilRYAAgoKpy/yg==) seems to be corrupted. Trying again.
npm WARN tarball tarball data for jquery-sizes@git+ssh://[email protected]/readium/jquery-sizes.git#d26d2510d069f84a64052c443a06b8534c5e9d0e (sha512-l2fcLLlCSYeWGPdGeWnadY/REi/qshKzwGwVvL89TGzDqh52vGZFgZPt7qeI2Clxq1c9EGuflWRtChS5HN4TMw==) seems to be corrupted. Trying again.
npm WARN tarball tarball data for http-server@git+ssh://[email protected]/readium/http-server.git#9c6e56279af34381a5dae640b7d73762e8135bd7 (sha512-481V03ReScl/ZFWfdq9HLxAXX+puIjyZ2lqRZktQXA9LIY+QEx6ztl9U4xUgNlYE3WtU9rIIpFKH7WzAIjqYiA==) seems to be corrupted. Trying again.
npm WARN tarball tarball data for css-element-queries@git+ssh://[email protected]/readium/css-element-queries.git#ca32ace3aecb9e05fcfef0c6d3d33a4d2bde3312 (sha512-yv5N3bSzfwZu2NP3vgc9r6AbbbdOJHbm6GTw+Hds7HULlufIrKyuBIipAOBA+2VkJE65cKlhilRYAAgoKpy/yg==) seems to be corrupted. Trying again.
npm WARN tarball tarball data for http-server@git+ssh://[email protected]/readium/http-server.git#9c6e56279af34381a5dae640b7d73762e8135bd7 (sha512-481V03ReScl/ZFWfdq9HLxAXX+puIjyZ2lqRZktQXA9LIY+QEx6ztl9U4xUgNlYE3WtU9rIIpFKH7WzAIjqYiA==) seems to be corrupted. Trying again.
npm ERR! Invalid Version: 3.5.0pr2

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Thomson\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2023-04-04T20_17_46_157Z-debug.log
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Use uuid module instead
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: CoffeeScript on NPM has moved to "coffeescript" (no hyphen)
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: This package is unmaintained and deprecated. See the GH Issue 259.
npm ERR! Invalid Version: 3.5.0pr2

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Thomson\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2023-04-04T20_17_48_641Z-debug.log

Product

readium-js-viewer

Additional information

Working on Windows 11, in a bash shell in Visual Studio Code.
npm version 8.1.2
node version 16.13.1
commit 51f2aa0 of readium-js-viewer

The string 3.5.0pr2 is not found anywhere in the source tree, so I have no idea what npm is trying to get that version of or why.

I considered changing package.json to get a numbered version of jquery-sizes and http-server, but there is no indication I could find of even approximately what version might be needed.

Apologies for not reading your contribution guidelines. The link leads to a page with a further link that is broken (404).

I have attached the log mentioned in the error message.

2023-04-04T20_43_43_484Z-debug.log

[AaronCMuller]

This looks to be an issue with NPM that was fixed in version v8.13+. Simply upgrading will fix the issue.

See the following issue for further detail: npm/cli#4992