OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Geneva 1.4.0-beta.4 requires OpenTelemetry (= 1.4.0-beta.2)

[abatishchev]

Issue with OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Geneva

Given

results in a warning:

 warning NU1608: Detected package version outside of dependency constraint: OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Geneva 1.4.0-beta.4 requires OpenTelemetry (= 1.4.0-beta.2) but version OpenTelemetry 1.4.0-beta.3 was resolved.

Because according to NuGet it has strict requirement on the certain version:

<dependencies>
  <group targetFramework=".NETFramework4.6.2">
    <dependency id="OpenTelemetry" version="[1.4.0-beta.2]" exclude="Build,Analyzers" />
  </group>
  <group targetFramework=".NETStandard2.0">
    <dependency id="OpenTelemetry" version="[1.4.0-beta.2]" exclude="Build,Analyzers" />
  </group>
</dependencies>

Runtime information (which doesn't matter):

<PropertyGroup>
  <TargetFramework>net7.0</TargetFramework>
  <Platform>AnyCPU</Platform>
</PropertyGroup>

Is this a feature request or a bug?

• Feature Request
• Bug

What is the expected behavior?

Please either:

• Release a version of OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Geneva built against the latest OpenTelemetry (=1.4.0-beta4)
• Relax the version requirements to >=

What is the actual behavior?

No warning is produced.

[Kielek]

It is expected. Please check this comment: #774 (comment).

What is more, all changes needed to work with 1.4.0-beta.3 are in place. You can request release by preparing PR siimilar to: #777

More details how to make a release request: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-request-for-release-of-package

EDIT: In this case new Geneva package version should be 1.4.0-beta.4

[cijothomas]

Echo what @Kielek said. It is intentional to have specific version dependency. The dependency is a non-stable package, and can introduce breaking changes.