lerna publish: issuing a WARN for private packages do not make sense

[christian-weiss-df]

Current Behavior

on "npx lerna publish" the cli (lerna cli v8.1.2) is issuing a WARN like this:

lerna WARN Unable to determine published version, assuming "my-package-here" unpublished.

But this package.json is set to:

private=true

Expected Behavior

There is no need to determ the version number of this package from remote npm package registry (github in my case).
A WARN is meaningless as the publishing process for this package will be skipped anyways.

On the other side a INFO about all packages which where skipped due to "private=true" would be better then just finishing the publishing process as success, without giving a hint, that something was skipped (by a good reason).

Steps to Reproduce

see above

Failure Logs / Configuration

package.json is set to:

private=true

lerna.json:

{
  "$schema": "node_modules/lerna/schemas/lerna-schema.json",
  "version": "independent",
  "npmClient": "npm",
  "command": {
    "publish": {
      "registry": "https://npm.pkg.github.com"
    }
  }
}

Environment

npx lerna --version
8.1.2

node --version
v18.12.1

npm --version
9.8.1

npx --version
9.8.1