NuGet pack ignores nuspec versions [unwanted version normalization?]

Hello,

It seems latest NuGet pack ignores the version set in the nuspec (or via the -Version override flag) and the dependencies' versions, by normalising them, even if nobody asked for it :(

It seems this was "fixed" for this https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/2039, but to me this seems a super counter-intuitive change, that breaks (at least for us) the daily workflows.

For the meantime, we had to do a workaround to "fix" the versions in the generated nupkg. I'm hoping that this can be fixed either by removing this weird logic, or allowing the nuget pack command to generate nuget package which contains the same versions as in the nuspec.

I'm using NuGet Version: 3.4.4.1321.

With this nuspec:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><package xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/packaging/2011/08/nuspec.xsd">
  <metadata>
    <authors>author</authors>
    <version>1.9.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <id>mylib</id>
    <dependencies>
      <dependency id="dependency" version="3.16.0.0"/>
    </dependencies>
    <description>mylib</description>
  </metadata>
</package>

executing nuget pack mylib.nuspec -Version 1.9.0.0-SNAPSHOT generates this .nuspec:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<package xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/packaging/2013/05/nuspec.xsd">
  <metadata>
    <id>mylib</id>
    <version>1.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <authors>author</authors>
    <owners>author</owners>
    <requireLicenseAcceptance>false</requireLicenseAcceptance>
    <description>mylib</description>
    <dependencies>
      <dependency id="dependency" version="3.16.0" />
    </dependencies>
  </metadata>
</package>

As we can see:

• Version is 1.9.0-SNAPSHOT instead of 1.9.0.0-SNAPSHOT (even if we specifically overrode it via the command line) - same happens with a non-SNAPSHOT version
• Even worse, the dependency version is 3.16.0 instead of 3.16.0.0
• Funnily enough, the filename has the full version: mylib.1.9.0.0-SNAPSHOT.nupkg