Packages added to elm-package.json even when they are not successfully installed

[kevgathuku]

I was trying to install the elm-community/elm-history -y to an Elm project I'm working on. I ran this command: elm-package install elm-community/elm-history -y and got this error message:

Error: I cannot find a set of packages that works with your constraints.

--> There are no versions of elm-community/elm-history that work with Elm
    0.18.0. Maybe the maintainer has not updated it yet.

I found its GitHub repo and saw that the package was deprecated. However, the package was still added to the elm-package.json file even though it was not successfully installed.

This makes subsequent runs of elm-package install fail because I now have an invalid package in the elm-package.json file.

Expected Behaviour: The invalid package name should not be added to the elm-package.json file

This is on elm-package 0.18.0

[process-bot]

Thanks for the issue! Make sure it satisfies this checklist. My human colleagues will appreciate it!

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[ceddlyburge]

I experienced this also.