Unpublished Packages Throw Inaccurate Error

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pnpm version: 7.21.0

Code to reproduce the issue:

Expected behavior:

An error code thrown which matches the state of the package; in this case, that it's unpublished or has no versions. Here is NPM's behavior:

→ npm add dsr-package-duets-torcs-riled-stays 
npm ERR! code ENOVERSIONS
npm ERR! No versions available for dsr-package-duets-torcs-riled-stays

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/powella/.npm/_logs/2022-12-28T16_42_24_356Z-debug-0.log

Actual behavior:

→ pnpm add dsr-package-duets-torcs-riled-stays
 ERR_PNPM_MALFORMED_METADATA  Received malformed metadata for "dsr-package-duets-torcs-riled-stays"

Additional information:

It's worth noting that Yarn fixed this at a point, and then regressed yarnpkg/yarn#5335

• node -v prints: v16.17.0
• Windows, macOS, or Linux?: MacOS

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thanks man!