Should `lerna publish --canary` detect unpublished packages?

Hi, more of a question than an issue.

I tried to canary publish a module that have not been published yet and lerna publish --canary did not detect it. lerna changed did detect the module. lerna publish from-package --canary did detect the module but didn’t wanted to publish a canary version (which is understandable looking at the source code).

I was able to force the behavior I wanted with lerna publish --canary --force-publish="@scope/my-package" but it’s not easily scalable.

It seems that this behavior is intended, so I’m wondering what are the reasons? Would publishing a canary version of a not-yet-published module be discussed?

Lerna version: 3.22.1 Mode: independent

[SalimBensiali]

Thanks @LeonardDrs. If you are concerned about scalability of your workaround, you could go with

lerna publish --canary --force-publish=$(lerna changed | sed 'N;s/\n/,/')

@evocateur was canary publishing meant to ignore changes in packages that have not been published yet? If not, I would be keen to contribute a fix.

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