Migrating off NuGetCommand is unclear

[FizzBuzz791]

We've hit the well-documented "mono is removed from ubuntu-latest" issue and I'm not here to contest that, it is what it is.

Reading the doco for NuGetCommand@2 - which is what we currently use to push packages to our organization scoped feed - the documentation says:

Users of this task on Ubuntu should migrate to the long term supported cross-platform task NuGetAuthenticate@1 with .NET CLI.

That's fine, makes sense. I added - task: NuGetauthenticate@1, and then I started looking at DotNetCoreCLI@2 and the remarks say:

The NuGet Authenticate task is the new recommended way to authenticate with Azure Artifacts and other NuGet repositories. The restore and push commands of this .NET Core CLI task no longer take new features and only critical bugs are addressed.

So, now I'm in an infinite loop.

I've implemented this for now, but I feel this is not correct:

          - task: NuGetAuthenticate@1
          
          - task: DotNetCoreCLI@2
            displayName: Push to NuGet
            inputs:
              command: push
              packagesToPush: $(Pipeline.Workspace)/**/*.nupkg;!$(Pipeline.Workspace)/**/*.symbols.nupkg
              nuGetFeedType: 'internal'
              publishVstsFeed: "<GUID>"

[Cheesebaron]

DotNetCoreCLI would be the direct replacement. It has all the same, and additional, arguments as the previous NuGetCommand available.

Alternatively you use cli dotnet push directly.

NuGetCommand relies on NuGet.exe being present on the system, which in turn relies on mono being installed. Since this is not installed on agents anymore, using dotnet is the replacement.

[FizzBuzz791]

DotNetCoreCLI would be the direct replacement. It has all the same, and additional, arguments as the previous NuGetCommand available.

That's demonstrably not true, allowPackageConflicts is missing, for example.

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That aside, the documentation says that the push command of .NET Core CLI is only getting critical bug fixes. That sounds like End of Life to me, so it doesn't seem right to be migrating to something like that?