[BUG] npx npm-packlist broken

[GeoffreyEmerson]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Current Behavior

Official npm docs (here) recommend using npx npm-packlist.

To see what will be included in your package, run npx npm-packlist.

I believe that feature was broken in #128 with the removal of the "bin" property from "package.json".

Current behavior is:

$ npx npm-packlist
npm ERR! could not determine executable to run

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/username/.npm/_logs/2023-03-19T00_30_14_201Z-debug-0.log

@nlf noted in the PR that "the npm-packlist bin has also been removed." but did not explain why.

Expected Behavior

npx npm-packlist should a list of files that will be included during npm publish.

Steps To Reproduce

1. In a repo of a project that is ready to be published to npm
2. Execute on the command line npx npm-packlist

Environment

• npm: 8.19.3
• Node: 18.13.0
• OS: macOS 13.2.1
• platform: Macbook Pro
• iTerm2
• zsh

[staff0rd]

A workaround for now is npx npm-packlist@6

[staff0rd]

Correct/new way is to run npm pack --dry-run . Docs are being updated

[wraithgar]

Unfortunately due to the way our dependencies are set up this bin can't work, there was a circular dependency on @npmcli/arborist that would prevent us from updating our packages.

Realistically this is a bad idea anyways since this package doesn't parse your config or cli args like npm itself, so npm will always be the more correct way to do this.