Disclaimer: There is always the back-step assumption of (my) user error.

Description

In the same day, I was able to publish using patch and minor semantic tags, and NOT with prepatch and prerelease tags. The log below appears:

✖ Command failed: npm view --json retoric dist-tags
npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/retoric - Not found
npm ERR! 404 
npm ERR! 404  'retoric@latest' is not in this registry.
npm ERR! 404 
npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a
npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, http url, or git url.
{
  "error": {
    "code": "E404",
    "summary": "Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/retoric - Not found",
    "detail": "\n 'retoric@latest' is not in this registry.\n\nNote that you can also install from a\ntarball, folder, http url, or git url."
  }
}

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/brunolnetto/.npm/_logs/2023-02-11T14_25_11_118Z-debug-0.log

As you can see, the command npm view --json retoric dist-tags fails. I do not know its meaning.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a published-to-be package with installed np-package;
2. run command npx np --any-branch;
3. See error log.

Expected behavior

I expect to publish a pre-version for a later and more mature release.

Environment

np - 7.6.3
Node.js - 18.12.1
npm - 8.19.2
Git - 2.25.1
OS - Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS