dart pub publish incorrectly warns about a checked-in symlink folder being ignored

[evanweible-wf]

• Dart SDK Version (dart --version): 2.19.2 (stable) (Tue Feb 7 18:37:17 2023 +0000) on "macos_x64"

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We have a project that exhibits this issue and it seems to be related to the fact that we have a folder symlink as one of our test fixtures.

This project includes a .pubignore file that should be ignoring the entirety of test/. That appears to be working for everything except the above folder symlink, which shows up as a warning from dart pub publish --dry-run:

$ dart pub publish --dry-run
Package validation found the following potential issues:
* 1 checked-in file is ignored by a `.gitignore`.
  Previous versions of Pub would include those in the published package.
  
  Consider adjusting your `.gitignore` files to not ignore those files, and if you do not wish to
  publish these files use `.pubignore`. See also dart.dev/go/pubignore
  
  Files that are checked in while gitignored:
  
  test/tools/fixtures/format/globs/links/lib-link

[mraleph]

/cc @sigurdm

[Nialixus]

In my case, this warning disappeared after I pushed the commit to the repository.

[joecotton-wk]

@sigurdm Has any progress been made on this? We have another project that is experiencing a very similar issue (link). The JSON-Schema-Test-Suite is copy of https://github.com/json-schema-org/JSON-Schema-Test-Suite, and is not excluded in the .gitignore in any way.

And, unlike what @Nialixus experienced, the warning has not disappeared after pushing to the repository.