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pnpm/installing/deps-resolver/src
Zoltan Kochan fe66535046 fix: converge incremental install by refreshing stale transitive pins (#12472)
When a package is reused from the lockfile, its child edges are taken
verbatim and bypass the preferred-versions walk, so a transitive
dependency can stay pinned to an older version even after a direct
dependency resolved to a higher version that satisfies the same range —
leaving the lockfile non-convergent (an incremental install keeps a
duplicate that a fresh install would not).

The resolver now refreshes such a stale pin to the higher
direct-dependency version during resolution, via `preferredVersion`
(singular), which overrides the EXISTING_VERSION_SELECTOR_WEIGHT stability
bias. The older version is never resolved or fetched, and the incremental
result converges to what a fresh install produces. The pick is anchored to
direct dependencies (which resolve first), so it restores the automatic
dedupe removed in pnpm/pnpm#11110 without reintroducing its
non-determinism, and unlike the post-pass in pnpm/pnpm#11502 it does not
over-fetch.

pacquet is ported in the same change. Its full-subtree lockfile reuse is
coarser than pnpm's per-edge reuse, so it records per importer which direct
deps changed and their resolved versions, declines full-subtree reuse for a
parent that depends on a changed direct dep, and forces the higher version
in the child walk. Range satisfaction uses plain semver (not
prerelease-inclusive), matching pnpm's semver.satisfies(.., true).
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