# Upstream origin and triage

- Original package: `debug@4.4.3`
- Repository: https://github.com/debug-js/debug
- Source commit: https://github.com/debug-js/debug/commit/6b2c5fbdb7d414483d9e306ef234acb4cd7ea67c
- Source directory: `.`
- npm tarball: https://registry.npmjs.org/debug/-/debug-4.4.3.tgz
- SHA512 integrity: `sha512-RGwwWnwQvkVfavKVt22FGLw+xYSdzARwm0ru6DhTVA3umU5hZc28V3kO4stgYryrTlLpuvgI9GiijltAjNbcqA==`
- npm last-release age selects maintenance scope; it does not imply no ongoing source development.

## Reviewed issues

Primary-source snapshot: `2026-09-29T00:21:48.384941+00:00`. Most recently updated 100 open and 30 closed issue/PR entries; PRs removed. This is triage evidence, not a claim of exhaustive review.

Maintenance adoption with preserved runtime payload. No runtime defect correction is claimed. Reports remain visible for subsequent targeted reproduction.

- [1019: Add documentation around using ESM imports](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/1019)
- [940: [Question] How do I enable millisecond diff?](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/940)
- [989: env variable DEBUG is not parsed correctly](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/989)
- [425: `debug.enable()` flushes enabled namespaces](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/425)
- [948: Specify namespace with url in ESM](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/948)
- [986: Ability to control other options programatically](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/986)
- [1010: propose for npm trusted publishing with OIDC](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/1010)
- [1008: Debug as JSON](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/1008)
- [999: `.extend` is undefined in cloudflare workers](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/999)
- [786: Use ESModules instead of module.exports](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/786)
- [1002: console.group and groupCollapsed](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/1002)
- [981: Problem when using a library that uses `debug` in Deno](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/981)
- [685: Does debug support React Native remote debugging. ](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/685)
- [758: Add unique ID without impacting wildcard functionality](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/758)
- [952: Debug mixed with console.log](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/952)
- [962: update colors for darkmode in devtools](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/962)
- [976: Way to disable printf-style feature temporarily](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/976)
- [958: Display full error object all the time regardless of argument position](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/958)
- [974: Why cache namespaces?](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/974)
- [959: DEBUG_HIDE_DATE doesn't exist / do anything](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/959)
- [556: [RFC] Pluggable log handler](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/556)
- [967: Unused format specifiers are not escaped.](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/967)
- [964: Allow choice between STDERR and STDOUT](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/964)
- [954: Avoid throwing errors](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/954)
- [656: 5.x Roadmap](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/656)
- [945: Redirect logs to file doesnt capture time](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/945)
- [947: Specify peer dependency version](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/947)
- [946: Different formatting for namespaces on TTY and files](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/946)
- [582: Customizing output format](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/582)
- [920: Support for console.table like output](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/920)
- [932: Wildcard question: allow one excluding rest](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/932)
- [916: Doc suggestion: Using `debug` in WebWorkers / SharedWorkers](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/916)
- [922: Allow forcing the use of colors](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/922)
- [918: namespaces returned by debug.disable are not always accepted by debug.enable](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/918)
- [914: Reroute logging of an npm package that uses debug to a different logging function](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/914)
- [913: Float's are truncated](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/913)
- [901: Does 'debug' cache the DEBUG environment variable somewhere? Getting no output after changing namespace and DEBUG env var.](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/901)
- [912: require('supports-color') will always fail, supports-color version 9+ for node](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/912)
- [893: Possibility to read in config at debug instance creation instead of at first (version) require/ import?](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/893)
- [483: debug with chrome dev tool  issue](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/483)
- [649: Clean up README](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/649)
- [687: when %j exists in a formatted object, it pulls in the timestamp/delta](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/687)
- [688: Thoughts on locking version of "ms" dependency?](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/688)
- [751: MS Edge, almost working colors](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/751)
- [766: % symbol in object interpreted as formatter](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/766)
- [873: Can't set global `log()` function overriding namespaces ones](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/873)
- [886: Override `log()` functions with global ones](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/886)
- [641: Visual Studio Code express app](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/641)
- [845: Undocumented ```delete process.env.DEBUG``` when variable is empty](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/845)
- [744: Using debug with `esm` renders wrong formatted output for %o / %O](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/744)
- [698: How can I write to file without colors and to console with colors?](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/698)
- [644: [RFC] Compatibility layer](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/644)
- [696: Not printing any debug statements](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/696)
- [743: Cannot turn on debug within a sourceless page](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/743)
- [742: colors not detected in AudioWorkletProcessor](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/742)
- [702: WebStorm console, Windows Command Prompt do not support 256 colors](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/702)
- [669: Add Typescript types](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/669)
- [711: Extending error object in express, but Debug does only show the stack trace](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/711)
- [642: Object colors with a plurality of parameters](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/642)
- [636: Wildcard in name doesn't auto enable on web](https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/636)

The structured snapshot in `.stackline/issue-triage.json` also records recently closed reports. Issues for unrelated packages in shared monorepositories were qualified as outside this fork’s runtime scope. No maintainer was contacted.