Followup to #7752. That PR raised `src/package.json` engines.node to
>=25.0.0 (matching the workspace root) but missed three places that
still encoded the previous Node 22+ floor — so the deb-package CI
broke at sha 33b616b9:
packaging/nfpm.yaml declared `Depends: nodejs (>= 22)`, so the deb
installed cleanly on a Node 22-or-24 system. .github/workflows/
deb-package.yml's smoke test then explicitly installed Node 24
(`NODE_MAJOR=24`), `dpkg -i` succeeded, and `systemctl start
etherpad` crashlooped with:
[ERROR] settings - Running Etherpad on Node v24.15.0 is not
supported. Please upgrade at least to Node 25.0.0
(The misleading `ENOENT: ... lstat '/opt/etherpad/.git'` line above
it is a benign WARN from getGitCommit(), wrapped in try/catch — not
the cause.)
This commit aligns everything to Node 25:
- packaging/nfpm.yaml: `nodejs (>= 22)` → `nodejs (>= 25)` in the
top-level `depends:` and the deb / rpm overrides (3 occurrences).
- .github/workflows/deb-package.yml: smoke-test `NODE_MAJOR=24` →
`25`, comments updated to match.
- packaging/README.md: doc points users at `node_25.x` NodeSource
apt repo (Node 25 isn't in most distro repos yet, so the
`setup_lts.x` shortcut no longer suffices).
- packaging/bin/etherpad: comment about the apt declare updated to
match.
No source code changes — Etherpad's own NodeVersion check already
reads engines.node from src/package.json and rejects anything older.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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