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Package `types-registry` does not publish types

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
release

Research direction

Start with packages/publisher/src/publish-registry.ts at lines 222-228, then inspect the types-registry package metadata and publication setup. Determine why the package omits its type declarations and verify that the published package includes them.

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Description

Ironically, the types-registry package, which publishes the list of all available types does not publish types itself. 😁

Types are defined here:

https://github.com/microsoft/DefinitelyTyped-tools/blob/9b3bee0a3d78ee8f6894d930b25ecea7793788ad/packages/publisher/src/publish-registry.ts#L222-L228

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Merged PRs (30d)
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