Comment 2 for bug 861219

using proposed install instructions under oneiric builds the package. It fails when using npm from current oneiric repository with the following error:
npm ERR! Error: Using '<' with 0.1.x makes no sense. Don't do it.
npm ERR! at /usr/share/npm/lib/utils/semver.js:94:29
npm ERR! at String.replace (native)
npm ERR! at replaceXRange (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/semver.js:88:25)
npm ERR! at Array.map (native)
npm ERR! at replaceXRanges (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/semver.js:84:17)
npm ERR! at Array.map (native)
npm ERR! at toComparators (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/semver.js:66:8)
npm ERR! at Object.validRange (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/semver.js:138:11)
npm ERR! at install_ (/usr/share/npm/lib/install.js:103:22)
npm ERR! at /usr/share/npm/lib/install.js:77:5
npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>
npm ERR! or email it to <email address hidden>
npm ERR! Just tweeting a tiny part of the error will not be helpful.
npm not ok

The version in the oneiric repositories is: 0.2.19-1
The current version of npm is: 1.0.30
In order for this to be packaged (using npm) npm needs to be updated.

Or is there a way to package forever without the proposed npm?