[Push] Symbols.nupkg had not been pushed to the specific source using command:”dotnet nuget push “*.nupkg”” although the cmd said it was pushed

[v-luzh]

Details about Problem

VS Version: Main\31222.286
NuGet Version: Dev\5.10.0.7222
OS Version: Windows-10-Enterprise-20H1

Repro steps and/or sample project

1. Create a new C# Console Application (.net Core 5.0) project (called ConsolePackage) via VS.
2. Pack several packages (one package is created includes the symbol package).
3. Cd to the packed package folder (C:\Users\v-luzh\source\repos\ConsolePackage\ConsolePackage\bin\Debug) and push all the packages created in step2 to a specific source with the command: ”dotnet nuget push “*.nupkg” –s C:\Users\v-luzh\source\repos\LocalPushed”.
4. Go to the specific source and check if all the packages are pushed.

Expected

All the packages are pushed successfully to the specific source. Below are all the packages I created in step2.

Actual

Symbols.nupkg had not been pushed to the specific source although the command said it was pushed as below screenshot.

Note:

1.It also repro when pushing all the packages to UNC path.
2.It seems not a regression since it repro on .NET Core 3.1.408.

[aortiz-msft]

@zkat - should we have simply shown an error in this case?

[zivkan]

I think this is just an "unclear" part of NuGet, which leads to misunderstandings.

Symbols packages are just "different". They were only ever supported over HTTP, never locally, and even then through a 3rd party website, not nuget.org. When nuget.org started supporting symbols packages, we had to invent a new .snupkg file, not .symbols.nupkg.

So, I believe that ignoring *.symbol.snupkg files on local pushes are quite deliberate.

There may be a case to allow it, and have the pdbs written to the same location as the non-symbols package, so that debug symbols are available. But that will be a new feature request, or maybe a DCR, the difference between the two is very unclear, but in any case it's not a bug.

[v-luzh]

It still reproes on VS Main\35221.199 + NuGet Client Dev\6.12.0.81.

[jgonz120]

@zivkan would it make sense to remove the message in the log so it doesn't say the symbols were pushed on a local push?

[zivkan]

yes, it very much would 😁