Source: node-execa Section: javascript Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Pirate Praveen Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11) , nodejs Standards-Version: 4.1.4 Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#readme Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-execa.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-execa Package: node-execa Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , nodejs , node-cross-spawn , node-get-stream (>= 3.0.0) , node-is-stream (>= 1.1.0) , node-npm-run-path (>= 2.0.0) , node-p-finally (>= 1.0.0) , node-signal-exit (>= 3.0.0) , node-strip-eof (>= 1.0.0) Description: better `child_process` This is better in the following ways: - Promise interface. - Strips EOF from the output so you don't have to `stdout.trim()`. - Supports shebang binaries cross-platform. - Improved Windows support. - Higher max buffer. 10 MB instead of 200 KB. - Executes locally installed binaries by name. - Cleans up spawned processes when the parent process dies. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.