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Decide the fate of the pdf-codec.js and pdf-parser.js npm aliases, stranded since the monorepo migration #729
Description
pdf-codec.js and pdf-parser.js are npm aliases for pdf-codec, previously published by the standalone pdf-codec repo's own CI. That repo is now archived as part of the monorepo consolidation (see #664), and this monorepo's release pipeline has no equivalent alias-publishing step, so both aliases are stuck at their last pre-migration version while pdf-codec itself keeps releasing.
Two ways to close this out, same as #727:
- Wire alias publishing into this repo's release workflow, so both aliases keep tracking
pdf-codecon every release. - Leave them frozen deliberately and mark them deprecated on npm (
npm deprecate) pointing users atpdf-codec, so they stop looking like maintained packages.
Either is fine; what's not fine is leaving them silently stale with no decision recorded.
Activity
docs: point package release sections at the monorepo root, not stale …
Mearman commentedon Aug 21, 2026
The decision is made and shipped: restore, not deprecate. PR #773 merged the post-release republish machinery back into the monorepo's CI, and this alias is listed in
release-republish.json's map, so every future release of its parent package republishes under this name via OIDC trusted publishing.One activation step remains and it is npm-account-side only (documented in the repo README's Releases section): each alias name's trusted publisher must be registered once against
ExaDev/documents.js+ workflowci.ymlon npmjs.com, because trusted publishing is registered per package name and this alias's existing registration still names its archived standalone repository. Until then the alias's publish leg skips with a notice rather than failing the job; the first release after registration picks the name up automatically.docs: point package release sections at the monorepo root, not stale …
Mearman commentedon Sep 10, 2026
Trusted publishers registered and verified: the backfill run https://github.com/ExaDev/documents.js/actions/runs/34449796133 published pdf-codec.js@4.5.1 and pdf-parser.js@4.5.1 (both legs green, registry confirms).