This is mainly a documentation request - happy to refile if this needs to be reported somewhere different.

I am using dotnet 6.0.400 on Linux.

Background

I have a small multi-project solution. All of the projects in this solution use CPM to manage dependency versions. Since the dotnet commands and templates do not use that feature by default, I chose (perhaps poorly) to edit the Directory.Packages.props manually through VS Code whenever dependency versions need to change.

This particular issue

I wrote invalid XML in my Directory.Packages.props - specifically, an unclosed tag. This caused subsequent calls to dotnet restore to fail. One error message appears for each dependency, in a form like so:

MyProject.csproj : warning NU1604: Project dependency Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer does not contain an inclusive lower bound. Include a lower bound in the dependency version to ensure consistent restore results.

If dotnet restore is called with detailed- or diagnostic-level verbosity, I note the following in the output:

Project "/path/to/solution/Directory.Packages.props" was not imported by "/path/to/dotnet/sdk/6.0.400/NuGet.props" at (35,3), due to the file being invalid.

My request

Looking at the official docs for NU1604, I noticed no reference to CPM. Please provide some kind of link, and (if it's not too much trouble) suggest that there might be this kind of situation with a malformed file.

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• ID: 520cf107-0d2e-f014-1420-a704ab761424
• Version Independent ID: 7f25b7e4-59d1-e79b-469b-950e3281c859
• Content: NuGet Warning NU1604
• Content Source: docs/reference/errors-and-warnings/NU1604.md
• Product: nuget
• GitHub Login: @zhili1208
• Microsoft Alias: lzhi