Source: node-signal-exit Section: javascript Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Sruthi Chandran Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) , dh-buildinfo , nodejs Standards-Version: 4.1.1 Homepage: https://github.com/tapjs/signal-exit Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-javascript/node-signal-exit.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-javascript/node-signal-exit.git Package: node-signal-exit Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , nodejs Description: Fire an event no matter how a process exits When you want to fire an event no matter how a process exits: reaching the end of execution. explicitly having process.exit(code) called. having process.kill(pid, sig) called. receiving a fatal signal from outside the process . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.