Internal Server Error when pushing package with empty description.

[BADF00D]

Hi,
I'm creating a nuget package with fake, where the assembly attribute description is "". This results in an internal server error 500. Unfortunately there is no further information.

The nuspec file contains an empty description tag.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<package xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/packaging/2011/10/nuspec.xsd">
  <metadata>
    <id>some id</id>
    <version>0.7.0</version>
    <title>some title</title>
    <authors>authors</authors>
    <description></description>
    <dependencies>
      <dependency id="some id 2" version="0.7.0" />
      <dependency id="some id 3" version="0.7.0" />
    </dependencies>
  </metadata>
</package>

Within the nuget specification, I cannot find a hint that the specification tag has to be filled, so I assume this behavior is an error. If it is not, it would be great if there error is a little more verbose.

Best Greetings

[chriseldredge]

Please look in ~/App_Data/Logs/Klondike.log for details on what went wrong. You can also try enabling showExceptionDetails in Settings.config, but it won't mean that the NuGet client will show anything useful.

[inosik]

The required fields in a .nuspec are id, version, authors and description. These attributes are written in bold font on the page @BADF00D linked. I agree that this should be stated more clearly in the documentation.

Do you use Paket to create your packages, @BADF00D? I had this problem with Paket, and tried to reproduce with NuGet, but it refuses to pack a .nuspec with any of the required fields missing or being an empty string.

[BADF00D]

Yes, I used paket to create the nuget package. So I should forward this error to them?

[inosik]

Please leave a comment on fsprojects/Paket#1831, @BADF00D. Thanks.