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[dts-gen] dts-gen blocked the terminal and reported a 404 error

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

Reproduce the issue with the shown npx dts-gen command and confirm that generation completes while the process remains blocked after the 404 warning. Locate the dts-gen CLI entry point and the version/homepage lookup, then add or update coverage so a missing package exits cleanly without requiring Ctrl+C.

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Description

I am following the steps of DefinitelyTyped.
It can successfully generate files. But I hope it can exit correctly, otherwise I have to press Ctrl+C.

input: npx dts-gen --dt --name XXXX --template module
output: Warning: Could not retrieve version/homepage information: HTTP Error 404: Not Found for https://registry.npmjs.org/XXXX

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TypeScript
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Forks
238
Avg merge
1d 4h
Merged PRs (30d)
8

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