Ability to expire a pre-release package

[anangaur]

Many times authors release beta packages for testing waters but they do not want users to continue working with these packages.

There should be a mechanism to put an expiry date on the beta packages after which NuGet restores should start warning users.

[xavierdecoster]

Could this be part of the Package Deprecation spec? We have an issue tracking that feature: #2867

[anangaur]

#2867 looks similar. However, #2867 lets you deprecate a package at any point in time. This proposal is to have a time-bomb attached with the nupkg so that even the cached version would have the expiry and NuGet CLIs can warn once it expires.

[maartenba]

Who knows, maybe I want to auto-update my v2 version when I publish v3 next Tuesday. (Or: perhaps they are indeed the same feature, with an enhanced scope in the current issue?)

[nkolev92]

This seems like a high-cost low benefit thing tbh. Worth having a triage discussion over.

[anangaur]

Closing this as duplicate of #2867