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npm google-gax @5.0.7

score
0.7 high
flagged 2026-07-23 17:41
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topology 2 enrichment 1

maintainers added: —

package profile →

Signals fired

signalweightrationale
topology
dist_tag_anomaly 0.5 dist-tags.latest=5.0.7 but max published is 6.0.1-experimental
shared_repo_different_publisher 0.9 repo 'git+https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-node-core.git' also claimed by 1 package(s) under different publishers: ['npm/@depup/google-gax']
enrichment
repo_archived 0.7 claimed repo googleapis/google-cloud-node-core is archived but package keeps publishing

Prior profile (what it deviated from)

{
  "had_install_script": false,
  "maintainers": [
    "google-wombot",
    "ofrobots",
    "mrdoob"
  ],
  "versions": 383
}

Evidence (package doc at flag time)

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    "tarball": "https://registry.npmjs.org/google-gax/-/google-gax-5.0.7.tgz",
    "unpackedSize": 3278838
  },
  "dist-tags": {
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    "debug": "4.0.2-debug",
    "experimental": "6.0.1-experimental",
    "latest": "5.0.7",
    "legacy-10": "2.30.5",
    "legacy-14": "4.4.1",
    "legacy-8": "1.15.4",
    "load-proto-json": "2.12.0-pre.1",
    "next": "4.0.1",
    "rc": "5.1.1-rc.1",
    "rest_stream": "2.28.0-pre.1"
  },
  "latest_version": "5.0.7",
  "maintainers": [
    {
      "email": "node-team-npm+wombot@google.com",
      "name": "google-wombot"
    },
    {
      "email": "ofrobots@google.com",
      "name": "ofrobots"
    },
    {
      "email": "info@mrdoob.com",
      "name": "mrdoob"
    }
  ],
  "num_versions": 383,
  "repository": {
    "directory": "packages/gax",
    "type": "git",
    "url": "git+https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-node-core.git"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "browser-test": "cd test/browser-test && npm run prefetch && npm install && npm test",
    "clean": "gts clean",
    "compile": "tsc -p . && cp src/*.json build/src && cp -r test/fixtures build/test && cp -r protos build/",
    "compile-compute-operations-protos": "pbjs -t json google/longrunning/compute_operations.proto -p ./protos > protos/compute_operations.json && pbjs -t static-module -r compute_operations_protos google/longrunning/compute_operations.proto -p ./protos > protos/compute_operations.js && pbts protos/compute_operations.js -o protos/compute_operations.d.ts",
    "compile-http-protos": "pbjs -t static-module -r http_proto --keep-case google/api/http.proto -p ./protos > protos/http.js && pbts protos/http.js -o protos/http.d.ts",
    "compile-iam-protos": "pbjs -t json google/iam/v1/iam_policy.proto google/iam/v1/options.proto google/iam/v1/policy.proto google/iam/v1/logging/audit_data.proto -p ./protos > protos/iam_service.json && pbjs -t static-module -r iam_protos google/iam/v1/iam_policy.proto google/iam/v1/options.proto google/iam/v1/policy.proto google/iam/v1/logging/audit_data.proto -p ./protos > protos/iam_service.js && pbts protos/iam_service.js -o protos/iam_service.d.ts",
    "compile-location-protos": "pbjs -t json google/cloud/location/locations.proto -p ./protos > protos/locations.json && pbjs -t static-module -r locations_protos google/cloud/location/locations.proto -p ./protos > protos/locations.js && pbts protos/locations.js -o protos/locations.d.ts",
    "compile-operation-protos": "pbjs -t json google/longrunning/operations.proto -p ./protos > protos/operations.json && pbjs -t static-module -r operations_protos google/longrunning/operations.proto -p ./protos > protos/operations.js && pbts protos/operations.js -o protos/operations.d.ts",
    "compile-status-protos": "pbjs -t json google/rpc/status.proto google/rpc/error_details.proto -p ./protos > protos/status.json",
    "docs": "jsdoc -c .jsdoc.js",
    "fix": "gts fix",
    "lint": "gts check src samples test",
    "minify-proto-json": "cd ../tools && npm i && npm run compile && cd ../gax && node ../tools/build/src/minify.js",
    "precompile": "gts clean",
    "prelint": "cd samples; npm link ../; npm install",
    "prepare": "npm run compile && cd ../tools && npm i && npm run compile && cd ../gax && pwd && node ../tools/build/src/prepublish.js . && mkdirp build/protos && cp -r protos/* build/protos/ && npm run minify-proto-json",
    "pretest": "npm run prepare",
    "samples-test": "cd samples/ && npm link ../ && npm test && cd ../",
    "system-test": "c8 mocha build/test/system-test --timeout 600000 && npm run test-application",
    "test": "c8 mocha build/test/unit",
    "test-application": "cd test/test-application && npm run prefetch && npm install && npm start",
    "update-protos": "cd ../tools && rm -rf node_modules build && npm i && npm run compile && cd ../gax && node ../tools/build/src/listProtos.js ."
  },
  "signal_details": {
    "dist_tag_anomaly": "dist-tags.latest=5.0.7 but max published is 6.0.1-experimental",
    "repo_archived": "claimed repo googleapis/google-cloud-node-core is archived but package keeps publishing",
    "shared_repo_different_publisher": "repo 'git+https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-node-core.git' also claimed by 1 package(s) under different publishers: ['npm/@depup/google-gax']"
  },
  "time": {
    "created": "2016-06-10T22:43:26.370Z",
    "modified": "2026-06-04T21:42:20.129Z"
  }
}