[Package Issue]: Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8

[otto-liljalaakso-nt]

Please confirm these before moving forward

• I have searched for my issue and not found a work-in-progress/duplicate/resolved issue.
• I have not been informed if the issue is resolved in a preview version of the winget client.

Category of the issue

Installation issue.

Brief description of your issue

Winget considers Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8 not installed, then fails to install it due to "A higher version of this application is already installed."

Steps to reproduce

> winget list Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8
> winget install Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8

Actual behavior

Not installed according to list:

> winget list Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8
No installed package found matching input criteria.

But install fails due to higher version being installed:

> winget install Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8
Found Microsoft.UI.Xaml [Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8] Version 8.2306.22001.0
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
  ████████████████████████████▌   95%
Installer failed with exit code: 0x80073d06 : Pakettia ei voitu asentaa, koska t�m�n paketin uudempi versio on jo asennettuna.
A higher version of this application is already installed.

Expected behavior

Finds the version that has already been installed using some other method than WinGet, does not attempt to update.

Environment

Windows Package Manager v1.6.3133
Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.22631.2715
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.21.3133.0

Screenshots and Logs

No response

[Trenly]

@denelon - Seems like this is a CLI issue, especially since winget list isn't finding that it is installed. In fact, running the install twice doesn't throw the Found an existing package already installed. Trying to upgrade the installed package... message

PS C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\Desktop\winget-pkgs> winget install Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8
Found Microsoft.UI.Xaml [Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8] Version 8.2306.22001.0
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
  ██████████████████████████████  100%
Successfully installed
PS C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\Desktop\winget-pkgs> winget install Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8
Found Microsoft.UI.Xaml [Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8] Version 8.2306.22001.0
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
  ██████████████████████████████  100%
Successfully installed

PS C:\Windows\system32> winget install Microsoft.UI.XAML.2.8
Found Microsoft.UI.Xaml [Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8] Version 8.2306.22001.0
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
  ██████████████████████████████  100%
Successfully installed
PS C:\Windows\system32> winget install Microsoft.WindowsTerminal
Found Windows Terminal [Microsoft.WindowsTerminal] Version 1.18.3181.0
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
This package requires the following dependencies:
  - Packages
      Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8 [>= 8.2306.22001.0]
Installing dependencies:
(1/1) Found Microsoft.UI.Xaml [Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8] Version 8.2306.22001.0
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
  ██████████████████████████████  100%
Successfully installed

Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
  ██████████████████████████████  100%
Successfully installed

[DHowett]

I am just making stuff up, but... could this be because the installer YAML doesn't have the PackageFamilyName at the top level? Could this interfere with package identity correlation?

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifests/m/Microsoft/UI/Xaml/2/8/8.2306.22001.0/Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8.installer.yaml

WindowsTerminal does have the PackageFamilyName at the top level.

[Trenly]

I am just making stuff up, but... could this be because the installer YAML doesn't have the PackageFamilyName at the top level? Could this interfere with package identity correlation?

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifests/m/Microsoft/UI/Xaml/2/8/8.2306.22001.0/Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8.installer.yaml

WindowsTerminal does have the PackageFamilyName at the top level.

I doubt it; The installer level will override anything at the top level

[yao-msft]

It is most likely the package is recognized as system app and get ignored here

I checked the package is signed with WP Store-1st party app (1.3.6.1.4.1.311.76.5.100)

[Trenly]

It is most likely the package is recognized as system app and get ignored here

I checked the package is signed with WP Store-1st party app (1.3.6.1.4.1.311.76.5.100)

So the flow may need to be udated to not ignore system apps during install / list, but should ignore them for uninstall?

[yao-msft]

Correction: @JohnMcPMS just corrected me that the actual code filtering out framework packages is the cause. We may need to revisit this to include more package types.