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A word of caution about kitch: It's currently 850+ commits ahead of the stable version, many parts of the app have been rewritten.

However, I *have* very recently changed the release scripts so it doesn't matter which version of npm is used when building kitch (it just doesn't do `npm prune` at all).

I'm hoping for a prompt release of the next version, and there's always downgrading npm as a workaround for the current version!

If you have issues with itch, you can try the development version called kitch. It worked fine for me.

@onizou I'm a native French speaker, so I'm looking over your suggestions now & approving most of them. Thanks! Note that the app has self-update for locales, so as soon as I'm done updating them, they'll appear in whatever version of the app you're currently running.

I'm also looking to submit a PR to npm to help 5.4.0 ship faster and/or find a solution that doesn't rely on "npm prune"

thanks - running "npm install -g npm@5.2.0" has fixed it for now.

Oh and since I have the opportunity: I made many suggestions to correct and improve the french translation of itch. But there seems to be too few french-speaking translators to validate them. Some have been automatically accepted, but the huge majority remains on hold.
What can I do so that they are accepted and arrive on the next version on AUR?

Thanks for these informations. :)

Re the "May not delete" error: it's an npm bug introduced in npm 5.3.0 - I've been following the issue closely https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/17781 but no word from the developers there yet.

You might be able to work around it by running `sudo npm install -g npm@5.2.0` - to downgrade to npm@5.2.0, which doesn't have the issue. Note that pacman may complain about this later, since it'll definitely overwrite files that were installed by it.

You might also be able to use the downgrader AUR package to roll back to npm 5.2.0.

I'm really sorry about this, it's happening completely outside of our control and there are no easy workarounds - I'm not even confident the hard workarounds would work. The real fix is for npm 5.4.0 to ship, so we're waiting for that.

Same error for me. :(

Running tasks: electron:linux-x64

Running "electron:linux-x64" (electron) task
Verifying property electron.linux-x64 exists in config...OK
File: [no files]
Options: dir="stage", name="itch", electronVersion="1.6.2", appVersion="23.4.1", prune, asar, overwrite, out="build/v23.4.1", platform="linux", arch="x64"
Packaging app for platform linux x64 using electron v1.6.2
Rebuilding native dependencies
Warning: Command failed: npm prune --production
npm WARN The package sinon is included as both a dev and production dependency.

npm ERR! May not delete: /tmp/electron-packager/linux-x64/itch-linux-x64/resources/app/node_modules/.bin

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/nizou/.npm/_logs/2017-07-24T14_53_03_256Z-debug.log
Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

Fails to build for me with:

Warning: Command failed: npm prune --production
npm WARN The package sinon is included as both a dev and production dependency.

npm ERR! May not delete: /tmp/electron-packager/linux-x64/itch-linux-x64/resources/app/node_modules/.bin

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/paul/.npm/_logs/2017-07-24T14_27_35_826Z-debug.log
Use --force to continue.

Thanks for flagging the package out of date!

It's true that v23.4.2 came out, and I had to skip the AUR release for that one, because of a critical npm bug that came up 3 days ago: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/17781

I wasn't able to find a workaround in time (not for lack of trying).

Note that v23.4.2 doesn't contain any changes that affect Linux (strictly macOS fixes), so you're not missing out on anything :)