Stale packages not detected if 'parent' node_modules already has the updated versions

[samkelleher]

Consider this directory structure:

node_modules/dep@2
my-project/node_modules/dep@1
my-project/package.json (with dep@1 listed)

I run npm-check from within my-project, it should identify dep to be one version old and prompt to update from 1 to 2.

It doesn't.

At the very least it should prompt to update the package.json which is asking for version 1. But for some reason, because npm-check finds the latest version somewhere within the parents directory structure, it doesn't prompt to make any changes.

npm-check returns

 ⁉️  MISMATCH  Installed version does not match package.json.

but npm-check in interactive mode, displays nothing.