Is it possible to create the deb package as part of the standard build process?

[stephen-swensen]

Rather than having to invoke dotnet deb from the command line, is it possible to create the deb package as part of the regular build process (i.e. right click project -> Build in Visual Studio). After poking around, I tried adding the following to my project file

  <UsingTask TaskName="Packaging.Targets.DebTask" AssemblyName="Packaging.Targets" />
  ...
  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Packaging.Targets" Version="0.1.220">
      <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
      <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers; buildtransitive</IncludeAssets>
    </PackageReference>
  </ItemGroup>
  ...
  <Target Name="CreateDebOnReleaseBuild" Condition="$(Configuration) == 'Release'" AfterTargets="Build">
    <CreateDeb />
  </Target>

But I get the following error:

error MSB4036: The "CreateDeb" task was not found. Check the following: 1.) The name of the task in the project file is the same as the name of the task class. 2.) The task class is "public" and implements the Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask interface. 3.) The task is correctly declared with in the project file, or in the *.tasks files located in the "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64" directory.

[nref]

CreateDeb target is available for me after referencing Packaging.Targets

    <PackageReference Include="Packaging.Targets" Version="0.1.220" />