Removed parse-email-address prepare hook that broke Docker dev build

[9larsons]

Problem

The prepare: pnpm build script added in #28969 runs during pnpm install, including inside the ghost-dev Docker image build. That build stage only copies workspace package.json files into the image (not src/ directories), so tsc finds no input files, prints help output, and exits 1. Docker build fails, pnpm dev cannot start.

Fix

Removed the prepare hook. One-line change.

Type-resolution gap

The original motivation for adding prepare: ghost/core type-checks against parse-email-address types at build/index.d.ts. Without prepare, a fresh-clone dev session has no build/ until a manual build runs. Today this is mitigated by ghost/core's lint:types script which explicitly builds parse-email-address first, and by anyone who has ever run pnpm dev in the old fan-out (which kept tsc --watch running). A cleaner fix to track separately: expose src/index.ts as the types path in the exports field so node10 resolution doesn't need a build artifact.

ref #28969

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Walkthrough

The prepare script is removed from ghost/parse-email-address/package.json, eliminating the automatic pnpm build step that previously ran during the package's install/prepare lifecycle. All other scripts (dev, build, build:tsc, test, lint) remain unchanged.

Possibly related PRs

• TryGhost/Ghost#28844: Directly related — targets elimination of workspace build-on-setup, which aligns with removing the prepare script from @tryghost/parse-email-address.
• TryGhost/Ghost#28847: Related — adjusts lint:types to explicitly build @tryghost/parse-email-address before type-checking, compensating for when the prepare step is absent.
• TryGhost/Ghost#28969: Directly related — also modifies the scripts section of ghost/parse-email-address/package.json around the prepare script.

Suggested reviewers

• EvanHahn
• acburdine

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly states the main change: removing the parse-email-address prepare hook that broke Docker dev builds.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the Docker build failure and the one-line fix, matching the changeset.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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