False positive when running npm outdated in workspaces

[maiertech]

I have a monrepo that I manage with NPM workspaces. It contains an internal package at packages/ui and its name in package.json is ui and its version number is 0.0.0 and never changes.

I use the ui package inside the monorepo by adding it as "ui": "*", inside other workspaces.

When I run npm outdated, NPM tells me that I need to upgrade ui to v0.2.4, which is the latest version of an abandoned NPM package.

Shouldn't npm outdated notice that ui is an internal package? Or does NPM workspaces assume that the names of internal packages never conflict with external ones?