diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/npm/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/npm/package.py
index 0d6480f210..c8c544c117 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/npm/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/npm/package.py
@@ -13,49 +13,16 @@ class Npm(Package):
     """npm: A package manager for javascript."""
 
     homepage = "https://github.com/npm/cli"
-    # base https://www.npmjs.com/
-
-    git = "https://github.com/npm/cli.git"
     url = "https://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-9.3.1.tgz"
+    git = "https://github.com/npm/cli.git"
 
     version("9.3.1", sha256="41caa26a340b0562bc5429d28792049c980fe3e872b42b82cad94e8f70e37f40")
     version("8.19.3", sha256="634bf4e0dc87be771ebf48a058629960e979a209c20a51ebdbc4897ca6a25260")
     version("7.24.2", sha256="5b9eeea011f8bc3b76e55cc33339e87213800677f37e0756ad13ef0e9eaccd64")
     version("6.14.18", sha256="c9b15f277e2a0b1b57e05bad04504296a27024555d56c2aa967f862e957ad2ed")
 
-    version(
-        "6.14.9",
-        sha256="1e0e880ce0d5adf0120fb3f92fc8e5ea5bac73681d37282615d074ff670f7703",
-        deprecated=True,
-    )
-    version(
-        "6.14.8",
-        sha256="fe8e873cb606c06f67f666b4725eb9122c8927f677c8c0baf1477f0ff81f5a2c",
-        deprecated=True,
-    )
-    version(
-        "6.13.7",
-        sha256="6adf71c198d61a5790cf0e057f4ab72c6ef6c345d72bed8bb7212cb9db969494",
-        deprecated=True,
-    )
-    version(
-        "6.13.4",
-        sha256="a063290bd5fa06a8753de14169b7b243750432f42d01213fbd699e6b85916de7",
-        deprecated=True,
-    )
-    version(
-        "3.10.9",
-        sha256="fb0871b1aebf4b74717a72289fade356aedca83ee54e7386e38cb51874501dd6",
-        deprecated=True,
-    )
-    version(
-        "3.10.5",
-        sha256="ff019769e186152098841c1fa6325e5a79f7903a45f13bd0046a4dc8e63f845f",
-        deprecated=True,
-    )
-
     depends_on("node-js", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("libvips")
+    depends_on("libvips", when="@:7")
 
     # npm 6.13.4 ships with node-gyp 5.0.5, which contains several Python 3
     # compatibility issues on macOS. Manually update to node-gyp 6.0.1 for