Lint-deps error after updating a dependency

[Xhale1]

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Bug Description

Running yarn lint-deps reports errors after updating almost any dependency in the package.json. This causes yarn ready to fail.

This appears to be intentional from ts/util/lint/linter.ts, though there is no documentation around the purpose or role of this function. Several pull requests have mentioned this error but the specific reason for it seems to be elusive to contributors.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install clean project
2. Update a dependency (for example Chai 4.1.2 -> 4.2.0)
3. Install dependency with yarn install
4. Run yarn lint-deps to get errors

Actual Result:

29493 files scanned. 1 questionable lines, 2 unused exceptions, 1785 total exceptions.
...
ERROR: "lint-deps" exited with 1.
error Command failed with exit code 1.

Expected Result:

Performing minor dependency updates, or at least patch bumps, should succeed or provide a clearer reason as to why it fails.

I'm trying to updated deps and modernize parts of this project but it's proving difficult.

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Platform Info

Signal Version:

1.39.6

Operating System:

MacOS 11.1

Linked Device Version:

N/A

Link to Debug Log

N/A

[scottnonnenberg-signal]

Generally we're not interested in having third parties upgrade our dependencies. As you can see from that lint-deps action, we need to look deeper into our dependencies than most apps. I'm going to close this.