Contribution

• I'd be willing to implement this feature (contributing guide)

Describe the user story

Currently users can use the workspace: protocol without any value after the colon.

{
  "dependencies": {
    "foo": "workspace:"
  }
}

When running pnpm publish, this becomes:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "foo": ""
  }
}

This is probably a bug since "" is an ambiguous specifier.

Describe the solution you'd like

Using workspace: should equate to workspace:*. The result of pnpm publish should then be:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "foo": "<concrete-version-of-foo-package>"
  }
}

Comment from Zoltan:

• fix: frozen lockfile installs in pnpm repo #10377 (comment)

Describe the drawbacks of your solution

No response

Describe alternatives you've considered

We could also throw an error when encountering workspace:. From the discussion linked above, it sounds like we'd prefer just supporting this and making workspace: the same as workspace:*.