Flutter run always resolves dependencies

[FMorschel]

Environment

• Flutter 3.35.7
• Dart 3.9.2
• OS: Windows 11 Pro

Problem

This may be the same problem as #4672, but I just want to be sure.

I have a pub workspace with 6 Flutter apps and multiple packages. On the latest stable, if I run flutter run, I always see:

Resolving dependencies in `/my/package/path/`.
Downloading packages...

Which I'd expect only if the dependencies were not resolved.

Expected behavior

For it to run normally and skip the dependencies resolution, since that is already complete.

Actual behavior

Even if I run the app, close it with no changes and run it again, I see the same output every time.

--verbose output

I've verified, and nothing there displays why it is resolving the dependencies.

CC @sigurdm

[sigurdm]

This indeed looks like a bug.
Can you perhaps make a reproduction I can look at?

[FMorschel]

I've cloned our repo with all pubspec.yaml files and folder structure (and renamed/removed what I couldn't share).

I did flutter create . on the first app folder, and when running it on Web (I'm not sure all dependencies are compatible with all devices since we are still only publishing to Android so if you can't make things work, do some tinkering, but I think web works), even after doing pub get, I still reproduce the above, so here it is:

https://github.com/FMorschel/dependency_resolution

[sigurdm]

Thanks for the reproduction

I found the bug here: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/0125d95f7eb069269092523303e7735e8be314e3/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/dart/pub.dart#L275

We are looking at the wrong file. But I think even if we fix that, the logic will not be sound. I have to think a bit to make the correct fix