The 3.1.0 dotnet-runtime-3.1 Linux packages say "3.1.0 Preview 3" in their descriptions (Debian + RPM)

[dagood]

Note that like the other issues with 3.1.0 (#3950), the package's description says 3.1.0 Preview 3, but it actually installs a build that is essentially 3.1.0 stable, and it should work fine.

I saw this comment on the blog post calling out the problem: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-core-3-1/#comment-4170.

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I've tried installing 3.1.0 on Ubuntu 19.04 and CentOS 7, and "3.1.0" is installed on the machine:

$ dotnet --info
...
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.1.0 [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]

However the package description says "3.1.0 Preview 3"

$ yum info dotnet-runtime-3.1
...
Summary     : Microsoft .NET Core Runtime - 3.1.0 Preview 3 Microsoft.NETCore.App

This seems to be the same underlying problem that's caused the other 3.1.0 "Preview 3" issues. When I looked into it earlier, I found there weren't any differences that should matter to Linux users: dotnet/runtime#492 (comment).

This may not be worth fixing until 3.1.1, due to the risk and cost in replacing the bad packages with the correct ones without advancing the patch version.

@leecow

[leecow]

Thanks for the tracking issue. Since this has the same root cause as the comments in #3950 and #3962, closing as a duplicate.

[dagood]

@leecow to make sure the info's reachable, do we plan to fix the Linux packages for 3.1.0 or not?

[leecow]

This will be fixed for all packages and installers exhibiting the behavior in 3.1.1 in January.