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Make release job resilient to npm duplicate-version publish conflicts #2985

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fix(release): tolerate npm republish conflicts
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diff --git a/node_modules/@semantic-release/npm/lib/publish.js b/node_modules/@semantic-release/npm/lib/publish.js
index c983be89..66ec8ae0 100644
--- a/node_modules/@semantic-release/npm/lib/publish.js
+++ b/node_modules/@semantic-release/npm/lib/publish.js
@@ -27,7 +27,18 @@ export default async function (npmrc, { npmPublish, pkgRoot }, pkg, context) {
);
result.stdout.pipe(stdout, { end: false });
result.stderr.pipe(stderr, { end: false });
- await result;
+ try {
+ await result;
+ } catch (error) {
+ const output = `${error?.stdout ?? ""}\n${error?.stderr ?? ""}`;
+ if (/cannot publish over the previously published versions/i.test(output)) {
+ logger.log(
+ `Skipped publishing ${pkg.name}@${version} because it is already present on ${registry}`
+ );
+ return false;
+ }
+ throw error;
+ }

logger.log(`Published ${pkg.name}@${version} to dist-tag @${distTag} on ${registry}`);