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paket pack adds wrong prerelease dependency

See original GitHub issue

Description

When paket.lock includes a prerelease package paket pack command adds wrong dependency version to the .nupkg file

Repro steps

Install a prerelease package. Sample entry paket.dependencies:

nuget Nancy prerelease

Create a minimal paket.template

type project
version 0.1
authors tpluscode

Build Release
Create package:

paket pack output nugets

Repro here

Expected behavior

The reference should be >= 2.0.0-barneyrubble

Actual behavior

Actual reference in .nupkg is listed as <dependency id="Nancy" version="0.0.0-prerelease" />

Known workarounds

Adding these lines to paket.template solves the issue

dependencies
  Nancy >= LOCKEDVERSION

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

forkicommented, Nov 18, 2016

but that said: I thing we could change it to >= LOCKEDVERSION

for prereleases this would make sense

1reaction

forkicommented, Nov 18, 2016

ok. but that’s just Nuget being dumb.

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