Details about Problem

NuGet product used (NuGet.exe | Visual Studio | MSBuild.exe | dotnet.exe): nuget.exe CLI via Mono

Product version: 5.8.0.6930

Worked before? If so, with which NuGet version: No

Operating Systems: Linux and macOS

We create nuget packages on Linux and macOS by ‘nuget.exe pack ..’. Our source folder contains libraries and the set of symbolic links following Linux Shared Library Versioning Guidelines that we expect to be included into nuget package archive as symbolic links. But during packaging, the nuget.exe tool converts the symbolic links into files, which leads to 3x package size increase. As a result, some packages exceed 250Mb limit and cannot be deployed to Nuget gallery. Please fix the nuget.exe tool to support symbolic links.