Declaration file emits symbol property keys without importing them

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🔎 Search Terms

missing import in d.ts, symbol key not imported, unique symbol dts emit, dataTagSymbol not found, declaration file missing import

🕗 Version & Regression Information

• This is the behavior in every version I tried, and I reviewed the FAQ for entries about "Behavior That Looks Wrong (And Arguably Is) But Is Currently Working As Intended"
• This bug is reproducible in the latest stable (5.9.2), and still occurs in next (6.0.0-dev.20250811)

⏯ Playground Link

https://stackblitz.com/edit/stackblitz-starters-vflvduch?file=src%2Findex.ts

💻 Code

Here's the code from the Stackblitz reproduction above.

src/index.ts:

import { fn } from 'test-pkg';
export const value = fn();

node_modules/test-pkg/index.d.ts:

declare const lostSymbol: unique symbol;
type lostSymbol = typeof lostSymbol;

type SomeGeneric<T> = {
    [lostSymbol]: T;
};

declare function fn(): SomeGeneric<unknown>;

export {
    lostSymbol,
    fn
};

🙁 Actual behavior

dist/index.d.ts:

export declare const value: {
    [lostSymbol]: unknown; // lostSymbol is not defined here and errors on the consumer's type check
};

🙂 Expected behavior

dist/index.d.ts:

import { lostSymbol } from 'test-pkg'; // should import from pacakge

export declare const value: {
    [lostSymbol]: unknown;
};

Additional information about the issue

Related?: #49065

[privatenumber]

Thanks for tagging this as "Fix Available".

Is there a PR or commit associated with the fix that you could point me to? Curious to take a look.

[RyanCavanaugh]

I don't know why the bot did that 🤔