Binding Redicts are added only occasionally

Description

Can’t figure out why Binding Redirects are being added by paket only on some packages when I have set redirects: on or add --redirects parameter for paket.

Repro steps

In this simple example repo I have the following paket.dependencies file (and xunit is added to project ConsoleApplication):

redirects: on
source https://nuget.org/api/v2

nuget xunit

Now if i run any of the following

• paket install
• paket install -f
• paket install -f --redirects
• paket install -f --redirects --createnewbindingfiles

Expected behavior

Binding Redirects are added to the existing App.config file. For the package itself and also for all the transitive dependencies.

Could be that I’ve misunderstood something here, but the documentation quite clearly states:

tells paket to create Assembly Binding Redirects for all referenced libraries

So I’d assume that all libraries that are added as reference in *.csproj, would get matching Binding Redirects added to App.config as well (direct and transitive).

Actual behavior

Binding Redirects are not added. Not for the given package nor for the transitive dependencies.

Remarks and additional info

No known workarounds. I tried to add the package with --redirects flag, but this did not help. Also tried to set nuget xunit redirects: force on paket.dependencies, but no luck there either.

On the other hand in the following test paket seems to add Binding Redirect for FSharp.Core, but not for UnionArgParser: https://github.com/Gonnagle/paket-tests/releases/tag/binding-redirects-partially-working

Weirdly if I try to add FSharp.Core to the original test (next to xunit) the redirects fail to appear for this package also…

[smoothdeveloper]

@isaacabraham that behaviour is easy enough to document 😆

[Gonnagle]

Just tested this with 5.100.2 and it seems that the solution wide option at paket.dependencies now works as expected. So changing it as follows:

redirects: force
source https://nuget.org/api/v2

nuget xunit redirects: force

And running paket install -f now creates the binding redirects as expected.