Home: dotnet pack3 always adds exclude="Build,Analyzers" to .nuspec

[joelverhagen]

Steps

1. dotnet new a .csproj
2. dotnet restore3
3. dotnet pack3
4. Open up the .nuspec in the produced .nupkg
   

   Expected

The Microsoft.NETCore.App dependency should look like this:

<dependency id="Microsoft.NETCore.App" version="1.0.1" />

Actual

It looks like this:

<dependency id="Microsoft.NETCore.App" version="1.0.1" exclude="Build,Analyzers" />

[emgarten]

exclude="Build,Analyzers" exists for package/project duality.

Example 1
ProjectA -> ProjectB -> ProjectC (contains c.targets)
Result: ProjectA does not reference c.targets

Example 2
ProjectA -> ProjectB -(exclude build, analyzers)-> ProjectC (contains c.targets)
Result: ProjectA does not reference c.targets

Example 3
ProjectA -> PackageB -(no excludes)-> PackageC (contains c.targets)
Result: ProjectA includes c.targets

The reason dotnet pack does not add these excludes is because it was written before the flags existed and never updated.

I think the issue here is, should nuget pack continue writing out the dependency exactly as the project contained it, or should it drop this extra information and leave it up to the user to decide how to handle it.

[rrelyea]

lock down behavior in rc2. but this feels right.

[rrelyea]

will consider adapting in future, if it becomes issue.

[emgarten]

@davidfowl what are your thoughts on this?

Having these excludes is technically correct for duality, but if the dependency packages later change and start including build assets the older parent package would block them, which may be unintentional.

[dsplaisted]

Does this mean by default you won't get build targets from transitive package dependencies? That seems really wrong.

I think the ideal way to support package project duality with this would be to have you get the targets imported when you reference a project. I'm not sure how feasible that is.

It also seems like the current behavior also breaks package / project duality. Consider the following:

ProjectA -> PackageB (with b.targets)
Result: ProjectA imports b.targets

ProjectA -> ProjectB (with b.targets)
Result: ProjectA doesn't import b.targets

[dsplaisted]

I ran into this today. The xunit.performance repo instructs you to reference the xunit.performance package as well as a version of Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.TraceEvent:

1. Add a reference to the latest xunit.performance.api.dll
2. Add a reference to the latest Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.TraceEvent
   (It deploys native libraries needed to merge the *.etl files)

This is because the TraceEvent package includes native libraries which are included via a .targets file. So even though the xunit.performance package has a dependency on the TraceEvent package, when you consume the xunit.performance package the native assets don't flow through to the consuming project, because by default the dependency has exclude=Build. It looks like they tried to fix this by specifying <IncludeAssets>All</IncludeAssets>, but that doesn't help. The correct workaround is to set <PrivateAssets>None</PrivateAssets>, but this is not easily discoverable.

[jainaashish]

We've decided to change this default behavior for build assets and being tracking via https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/6091