Dependencies of netfx PackageReferences aren't referenced

[jnm2]

I'm referencing DevExpress's NuGet packages which target net40 in a netcoreapp3.0 project using <FrameworkReference Include="Microsoft.DesktopUI" />. NuGet gives a warning but everything should restore fine. From BUILD and dotnetconf, the expectation is that many .NET Framework assemblies actually do just work for the time being.

However, the compiler isn't referencing any assemblies from the package dependencies of these packages. In order to get the compiler to see assemblies in the package graph, I have to directly reference every package in the tree.

These packages come from a private feed with DevExpress customer API token in the URL, but there's nothing unusual about them.

Here's the workaround for now:

  <ItemGroup>
    <!-- ... -->
    <PackageReference Include="DevExpress.Win.Reporting" Version="17.2.4" />
    <PackageReference Include="DevExpress.Win.SpellChecker" Version="17.2.4" />
    <!-- ... -->
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup Label="Workaround for broken transitive restore (https://github.com/dotnet/core-sdk/issues/78)">
    <!-- Direct dependency of both DevExpress.Win.Reporting and DevExpress.Win.SpellChecker -->
    <PackageReference Include="DevExpress.Win" Version="17.2.4" />
    <!-- Direct dependencies of DevExpress.Win.Reporting -->
    <PackageReference Include="DevExpress.Win.Charts" Version="17.2.4" />
    <PackageReference Include="DevExpress.Reporting.Core" Version="17.2.4" />
    <PackageReference Include="DevExpress.Utils.UI" Version="17.2.4" />
    <!-- Direct dependency of DevExpress.Win.Reporting, DevExpress.Win.Charts, and DevExpress.Reporting.Core -->
    <PackageReference Include="DevExpress.Charts" Version="17.2.4" />
      <!-- Direct dependency of DevExpress.Win.Reporting, DevExpress.Win.Charts, and DevExpress.Charts -->
    <PackageReference Include="DevExpress.Charts.Core" Version="17.2.4" />
    <!-- Direct dependency of DevExpress.Win.Reporting and DevExpress.Utils.UI -->
    <PackageReference Include="DevExpress.Win.RichEdit" Version="17.2.4" />
    <!-- Direct dependencies of DevExpress.Win, DevExpress.Win.Reporting, and DevExpress.Reporting.Core -->
    <PackageReference Include="DevExpress.PivotGrid.Core" Version="17.2.4" />
    <PackageReference Include="DevExpress.RichEdit.Core" Version="17.2.4" />
    <!-- Direct dependencies of many of the above -->
    <PackageReference Include="DevExpress.Data" Version="17.2.4" />
    <PackageReference Include="DevExpress.Utils" Version="17.2.4" />
  </ItemGroup>

[nguerrera]

Does the nuspec rendering of the package to package dependencies have exclude=compile?

Do you have a repro using packages that we can access?

[nguerrera]

@jnm2 Friendly ping on those questions. If there are exclude=compile in the nuspecs of these packages, this is by design. If they do not, I'll need a repro to investigate further.

[nguerrera]

Duplicate of NuGet/Home#5957

[jnm2]

@nguerrera I'm so sorry I didn't get to this. Glad it was an existing problem and not something new.

[nguerrera]

No problem! I happened upon that nuget issue and then it hit me that this is the same as that.