Does GitHub Packages support Nuget Symbol Packages (.snupkg)?

[cjoergensen]

Hi

Does GitHub packages supports Nuget Symbol Packages (.snupkg)?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/create-packages/symbol-packages-snupkg

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[DavidThompsonWG]

@cjoergensen Did you ever get a reponse to this or figure out if they are supported. I am trying to find the same info, but not having much joy. Thanks, David

[cjoergensen]

@DavidThompsonWG nope, no response so far

[dmstrat]

I too am awaiting a response here as it seems to be failing if you try:

dotnet nuget push "/directory_of_both_files/" --api-key as;lkfjasdl;kfj --source "github nuget package reference name"

It explicitly rejects the secondary upload of the *.snupkg file with a 'version conflict'. This exactly matches to the stackoverflow post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52142074/dotnet-nuget-push-doesnt-seem-to-be-pushing-the-symbols

I've read the updated Github Packages documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/packages/working-with-a-github-packages-registry/working-with-the-nuget-registry as well, but no mention of the snupkg uploads.

Would like to have something in the searchable documentation to know one way or the other as I would like to keep these together for promotion to release once verified.

[trichardsonPDS]

It's been a while since I looked into this but after some digging I discovered that GitHub does not support Nuget Symbols Packages (forget exactly where I saw that as it's been a while).

I was however able to work around this by using Source Link (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/library-guidance/sourcelink). The trick is to embed the symbols file (.pdb) in the DLL itself instead of trying to use a separate file/package. I was able to accomplish this with the following two lines of code in the project file:

<DebugType>Embedded</DebugType>
<IncludeSymbols>true</IncludeSymbols>

You'll also need to include a package reference to Source Link. You can find more details here: https://github.com/dotnet/sourcelink/blob/main/README.md

Once I had everything configured and I pulled down the updated Nuget package, debugging just started working.

Hope that helps....

[dmstrat]

Thank you for adding this information. The embed seemed like the next step. You took it even further which is greatly appreciated.