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Category of the issue

Other

Brief description of your issue

Installer validation error in the Azure pipeline: #147284

It seems to be related to a dependency package (Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64) and not my package itself. Short of removing the dependency, I don't see anything that I can push to my PR branch to fix it.

There's an identical Automatic validation error here: #147206 (comment)

And another one where the same error was wavered last week: #146365 (comment)

Why so many failures with manifests that have winget dependency package requirements in their installer yaml?

Steps to reproduce

Include the following in a package installer manifest:

Dependencies:
PackageDependencies:

• PackageIdentifier: Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64

Actual behavior

2024-04-01 18:03:47.191 [FAIL] D:\a_work\1\s\external\pkg\src\AppInstallerRepositoryCore\RepositorySource.cpp(757)\WindowsPackageManager.dll!00007FFA4CC1C11F: (caller: 00007FFA4C9A8D6F) LogHr(1) tid(1cf8) 8A15005E Msg:[D:\a_work\1\s\external\pkg\src\AppInstallerRepositoryCore\Rest\Schema\HttpClientHelper.cpp(30)\WindowsPackageManager.dll!00007FFA4CB22B08: (caller: 00007FFA4CBCBC20) Exception(1) tid(1cf8) 8A15005E ]
2024-04-01 18:03:47.191 [REPO] Failed to open available source: msstore
2024-04-01 18:03:54.851 [FAIL] D:\a_work\1\s\external\pkg\src\AppInstallerRepositoryCore\RepositorySource.cpp(757)\WindowsPackageManager.dll!00007FFA31D3C11F: (caller: 00007FFA31AC8D6F) LogHr(1) tid(67c) 8A15005E Msg:[D:\a_work\1\s\external\pkg\src\AppInstallerRepositoryCore\Rest\Schema\HttpClientHelper.cpp(30)\WindowsPackageManager.dll!00007FFA31C42B08: (caller: 00007FFA31CEBC20) Exception(1) tid(67c) 8A15005E ]
2024-04-01 18:03:54.851 [REPO] Failed to open available source: msstore
2024-04-01 18:03:56.122 [CLI ] No suitable installer found for manifest Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64 with version 14.38.33135.0

Expected behavior

The installer verification should not fail.

Environment

This is not a winget client issue. This is an issue submitting a new version of a manifest to winget-pkgs. winget --info is not relevant.

Screenshots and Logs

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