Stop paying attention to PatchConfig.props #16748
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Summary
The ASP.NET Core team has hit repeated issues in servicing with merging fixes and not shipping the affected packages. 3.0 and later branches ship far fewer packages than 2.x and we have no (LZMA) downsides to shipping everything. The ASP.NET Core team thus decided to simplify the infrastructure and remove the previous ship / no-ship controls (in PatchConfig.props). This PR
does the minimum change to simply ignore that filecompletely removes the PatchConfig.props file and all references to it.We will probably follow up in 2.x branches to change the approach, automating what ships more extensively and removing the need for manual PatchConfig.props changes. That is not this change.
Small exception
"Everything" does not include the targeting packs or Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Ref. We do not normally service those.
Customer Impact
Never miss a fix after a servicing upgrade
Regression?
No
Testing
PR validation build includes stable versioning and published everything. This can be observed in the Source_Build_Packages and Windows_Packages listings at https://dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_build/results?buildId=415240&view=artifacts
Small exception
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Ref and the targeting packs were produced in that build. That's due to the 3.0.1 special case.
Risk
Low.