Turning off .NET Package Validation check for backwards compatibility across different frameworks feature

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I am trying to adopt .NET package validation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/apicompat/package-validation/overview as a replacement for our current solution to a set of libraries that my team maintains however, upon enabling it through true we get errors due to backwards compatibility between our different target frameworks which are intentional. We do not offer the same features depending on what framework our users run on.

For example, we might have an interface that we support for users running on NET462 that we do not intend to have implemented for a user running on NET6. Is there a property or on-going work that will allow us to turn off package validation checks for framework compatibility?

Our repo supports the following frameworks:

net462;net472;netstandard2.0;net6.0;net7.0;net8.0

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Original Comments

Feedback Bot on 12/19/2023, 03:27 AM:

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[dotnet-policy-service]

@dotnet/area-infrastructure-libraries a new issue has been filed in the ApiCompat area, please triage

[ViktorHofer]

PackageValidation offers the following validators:

• Baseline package validation (optional): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/apicompat/package-validation/baseline-version-validator
• Validate compatible frameworks: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/apicompat/package-validation/compatible-framework-in-package-validator
• Validate against different runtimes: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/apicompat/package-validation/compatible-framework-validator

It sounds like you only want to use the baseline package validation feature and disable the other validators. That isn't supported today but if requested, can be implemented.