Nuget Packages dependencies issue - visual-studio

Question

I'm having trouble of dependencies in a chain of NuGet projects (Visual Studio 2019 and NuGet 5.7.0.6726).
The first project, include Log4Net NuGet package from NuGet.org, I package it with "nuget.exe pack mx_logging.vbproj -IncludeReferencedProjects" and I have my own (MX_Logging.nupkg).
A second Project use MX_Logging and i got the installation of Log4Net too, no problem so far...
Now, if i pack the second project too with the same method used before, it only have MX_Logging and not log4net as dependencies, how my i fix this?
This is the package.config in the second project root:
<packages>
<package id="log4net" version="2.0.8" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="MX_logging" version="1.2.7668.29513" targetFramework="net452" />
</packages>
Thanks a lot to everyone ;-)

Answer 1

In my side, when I installed the second nuget project into a new net framework 4.5.2 project, it has the log4net nuget dependency.
log is the first nuget project and log1 is the second nuget project.
So please try the following steps:
1) delete bin and obj folder of the second nuget project.
2) clean nuget caches first or delete all cache files under C:\Users\xxx\.nuget\packages
3) rebuild your second nuget project and then
cd xxx\xxx\the second project folder(where exists the csproj file)
nuget spec
nuget pack xxx\xxx.csproj -IncludeReferencedProjects
4) make sure the second nuget package and the first nuget package are all under the nuget package source.
Update
I used nuget.exe cli v5.6.0 to pack the nuget project and I also test with v5.7.0. All are right.
Actually, I am guessing if you just see the second nuget package UI which does not list log4net nuget dependency.
Although it does not list log4net, but the log4net nuget dependency is under log nuget package. When you install log1 nuget package, it will install log nuget dependency with its log4net nuget dependency. And it just does not show the dependencies of the inter-generation package. But the log4net nuget package really exists. Just as my first pic shows.
But if you still want to the dependency shown on the UI, or your nuget package really has some problems, you could try this：
modify the second nuget project's nuspec file and add these:
<dependencies>
<dependency id="log4net" version="2.0.8" />
</dependencies>
The whole nuspec is like these:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<package >
<metadata>
<id>1og1</id>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<title>me</title>
..........
<tags>Tag1 Tag2</tags>
<dependencies>
<dependency id="log4net" version="2.0.8" />
</dependencies>
</metadata>
</package>
Then, repack your second nuget project.