@types/stripe gets new version 50 times a day

[JonnyBurger]

@types/stripe has had 50 new releases in the past day. I wonder if this is a bug?

[orta]

/cc @sandersn

Hrm, so this is a deprecated types package ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/@types/stripe ) - maybe we're deploying every deprecated module on every publish cycle?

[sandersn]

Looks like it started 10 days ago -- this was when it was deprecated, so I hope that this is a bug with only this package, and not with any deprecated package.

[sandersn]

Yep, doesn't happen with @types/next-seo, which was deprecated a day later.

[sandersn]

the logs make it look like a bug in the try-again logic for deprecation
when publishing the new version to be deprecated, it gave the following error each time:

publishing to github failed: Error: The expected resource was not found. : @types/stripe

BUT it stopped after a different deprecation also gave an error, but during the deprecation step instead of the publishing step:

Error: You can no longer unpublish this package.
Failed criteria: 
has dependent packages in the registry

Please deprecate it instead:

this makes no sense because deprecating a package from DT has two steps:

1. publish a stub package with no types, just a README.
2. deprecate the stub.

The stub-publish step doesn't check for the existence of the @types package. And the deprecate step doesn't try to unpublish.

[orta]

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