[BUG] Package named @scope/authentication cannot add/rm dist-tag

[hansl]

Note: Unsure if this is a CLI bug or a registry bug.

Current Behavior:

We have a @dfinity/authentication package published publicly on NPM and we cannot remove or add dist tags to its versions. The return is 400 Bad Request. Other packages in @dfinity scope work fine.

Logs:

$ npm --verbose dist-tag add @dfinity/authentication@0.6.23 latest
npm info it worked if it ends with ok
npm verb cli [
npm verb cli   '/Users/hansl/.nvm/versions/node/v12.18.3/bin/node',
npm verb cli   '/Users/hansl/.nvm/versions/node/v12.18.3/bin/npm',
npm verb cli   '--verbose',
npm verb cli   'dist-tag',
npm verb cli   'add',
npm verb cli   '@dfinity/authentication@0.6.23',
npm verb cli   'latest'
npm verb cli ]
npm info using npm@6.14.11
npm info using node@v12.18.3
npm verb npm-session 24af3c5099475576
npm verb dist-tag add latest to @dfinity/authentication@0.6.23
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/-/package/@dfinity%2fauthentication/dist-tags 318ms
npm http fetch PUT 400 https://registry.npmjs.org/-/package/@dfinity%2fauthentication/dist-tags/latest 178ms
npm verb stack Error: 400 Bad Request - PUT https://registry.npmjs.org/-/package/@dfinity%2fauthentication/dist-tags/latest
npm verb stack     at /Users/hansl/.nvm/versions/node/v12.18.3/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-fetch/check-response.js:117:15
npm verb stack     at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)
npm verb statusCode 400
npm verb pkgid @dfinity/authentication@0.6.23
npm verb cwd /Users/hansl/Sources/dfinity/agent-js
npm verb Darwin 20.3.0
npm verb argv "/Users/hansl/.nvm/versions/node/v12.18.3/bin/node" "/Users/hansl/.nvm/versions/node/v12.18.3/bin/npm" "--verbose" "dist-tag" "add" "@dfinity/authentication@0.6.23" "latest"
npm verb node v12.18.3
npm verb npm  v6.14.11
npm ERR! code E400
npm ERR! 400 Bad Request - PUT https://registry.npmjs.org/-/package/@dfinity%2fauthentication/dist-tags/latest
npm verb exit [ 1, true ]
npm timing npm Completed in 778ms

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/hansl/.npm/_logs/2021-02-12T20_06_22_095Z-debug.log

Expected Behavior:

This should update the dist-tag to the proper version.

Steps To Reproduce:

npm --verbose dist-tag add @dfinity/authentication@0.6.23 latest

Environment:

uname -a: Darwin iMac-Pro.local 20.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 20.3.0: Thu Jan 21 00:07:06 PST 2021; root:xnu-7195.81.3~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

node --version: v12.18.3 (note: was also reproduced on 14)

npm -v: 6.14.11

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