Zoltan Kochan 301a6db1cd fix: keep the declared specifier of an overridden dependency on update (#14223)
`pnpm update` rewrote every direct dependency's `package.json` entry to the
range resolution settled on. For a dependency that `overrides` also claims,
the resolver never read that entry: the overrides hook replaced it in the
manifest handed to resolution, so the version that came back answers the
override. Writing it back destroyed what the project actually declared —
most visibly a `catalog:` reference, which became a pinned version and
dropped the project out of the catalog.

The manifest writer now keeps the declaration on disk whenever the hooked
manifest's entry differs from it and the resolver followed the hooked one.
A dependency the run names with a specifier of its own (`pnpm add foo@2`)
still writes that request.

pacquet reaches the same entries through `ManifestSpecBumps`, whose targets
now carry the specifier `package.json` declares; a bump whose lockfile entry
no longer matches it is skipped, leaving the lockfile and the manifest
agreeing.

Closes pnpm/pnpm#12115
Closes pnpm/pnpm#11658
2026-08-27 15:27:25 +02:00
2026-01-16 16:31:31 +01:00

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