Incorrect errors when trying to publish

[stuartmorgan-g]

The flutter/plugins CI, which uses Flutter master, ground to a half sometime in the last couple of days due to bogus errors from pub publish --dry-run in our CI

Example (from https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5222632699199488):

ERROR: Package validation found the following errors:
* The pubspec is hidden, probably by .gitignore or pubignore.
* You must have a LICENSE file in the root directory.
  An open-source license helps ensure people can legally use your code.
Package validation found the following potential issues:
* Please add a README.md file that describes your package.
* Please add a`CHANGELOG.md` to your package. See https://dart.dev/tools/pub/publishing#important-files.
Sorry, your package is missing some requirements and can't be published yet.
For more information, see: https://dart.dev/tools/pub/cmd/pub-lish.
ERROR: pub finished with exit code 65
Unable to publish url_launcher

None of that is correct; the package has all of those things:
https://github.com/flutter/plugins/tree/master/packages/url_launcher/url_launcher

This seems to be happening with all of our packages, and reproduces locally with Flutter master but not stable.

[jonasfj]

@sigurdm might this be related to the .gitignore changes we've made?

[gspencergoog]

I am seeing this too, in the flutter/assets-for-api-docs repo, which also has a "packages" directory with packages in it.

Maybe we can include some of Flutter's repos in the CI test suite for dart pub (at least one of flutter/packages or flutter/plugins) as a "real world" test?