@timcassell could you please provide some explanations on why we actually have to copy the PackageReferences? Why the default NuGet transitive reference mechanism is not good enough for our use cases?

Tbh, I'm not sure why. This was just an experiment I tried to fix the issue, and it worked for me, so I sent the PR. My guess is because the csproj is an output exe instead of dll, so the transitive references are skipped over.

@timcassell I believe we should understand the source of the problem before merging any fixes. Could you please share a repro?

Could you please share a repro?

Can you repro with my description in #2344? I didn't do anything fancy, just a simple BenchmarkRunner.Run<Benchmarks>();.

@timcassell this issue is investigated, see my report in #2344 (comment)

@timcassell thanks!

This breaks if the Version attribute of the PackageReference uses a property, as the property is never copied.

This breaks if the Version attribute of the PackageReference uses a property, as the property is never copied.

Yeah... that was reported in #2364