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netstandard and net461

See original GitHub issue

Steps to reproduce

In my csproj, I am targeting netstandard 1.6

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <Description>Gluon.Core Class Library</Description>
    <Authors>Darrell.Tunnell</Authors>
    <TargetFramework>netstandard1.6</TargetFramework>
    <PreserveCompilationContext>true</PreserveCompilationContext>
    <AssemblyName>Gluon.Core</AssemblyName>
    <PackageId>Gluon.Core</PackageId>
    <GenerateAssemblyTitleAttribute>false</GenerateAssemblyTitleAttribute>
    <GenerateAssemblyDescriptionAttribute>false</GenerateAssemblyDescriptionAttribute>
    <GenerateAssemblyConfigurationAttribute>false</GenerateAssemblyConfigurationAttribute>
    <GenerateAssemblyCompanyAttribute>false</GenerateAssemblyCompanyAttribute>
    <GenerateAssemblyProductAttribute>false</GenerateAssemblyProductAttribute>
    <GenerateAssemblyCopyrightAttribute>false</GenerateAssemblyCopyrightAttribute>
    <UpdateVersionProperties>true</UpdateVersionProperties>
  </PropertyGroup>

I then have another project targeting net 461 that references the first netstandard1.6 project.

dotnet restore on the net 461 project then outputs this:

Project Gluon.Core is not compatible with net461 (.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1) / win7-x86. Project Gluon.Core supports: netstandard1.6 (.NETStandard,Version=v1.6)
      One or more projects are incompatible with .NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1 (win7-x86).

Yet from this table: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/dotnet/standard/net-standard netstandard1.6 should be compatible with net461. What am I missing?

Expected behavior

targeting netstandard1.6 library from net461 project should be valid.

Actual behavior

Not valid.

Environment data

dotnet --info output:

Product Information: Version: 1.0.4 Commit SHA-1 hash: af1e6684fd

Runtime Environment: OS Name: Windows OS Version: 10.0.15063 OS Platform: Windows RID: win10-x64 Base Path: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\1.0.4 PS C:\Users\darrell.tunnell\Source\Repos\gluon\src>