Keeping pdb files in non-symbol packages

We have a couple of packages that contain pdb files which are critical to the operation of the associated component, not to provide debugging information.

In the package the pdb file lives next to the dll in the lib\net40\ path.

When the package is either uploaded via the ProGet web interface or pushed via command-line, the package appears to be pulled into the server with the pdb intact (I confirmed this by opening the package from the server's \ProgramData\Proget\Feedname folder.)

However, when a client downloads the package the pdb file is stripped out. I suspect ProGet is seeing the package as a "symbol" package and taking the appropriate action to add the pdb to the symbol server but I'm not sure how to override this behavior. We do need the symbol server functionality for other packages so turning it off wouldn't be an option.

Is there a way to finagle the package so ProGet doesn't take the pdb out?

Thanks

Interesting, we never thought of that use case. We can make it configurable in the next maintenance release.

Great thanks! Is there an issue tracker that I could put this request into?

No, I've already added it - if you need to make updates just add them here.

Some day we'll open up our internal tracker but that's not a priority yet.

Apologies for the delay, but as of v3.0.3, you can configure your feed so that the PDBs are not stripped out.