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Winget upgrade converts my Edge PWA into Win32 app
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Description
Brief description of your issue
I have installed Element as a PWA from Edge browser (dev),
When I run winget list and winget upgrade in Powershell, I see PWA Element is listed there as follow:


as you can see, the source says: Winget, but the actual source where I installed it from is Microsoft Edge browser (dev).
Steps to reproduce
Install Element as PWA in Microsoft Edge (dev)
URL: https://app.element.io/#/home
Not sure it's relevant but I chose to Pin its icon to Start menu, Taskbar and set it to auto-start on device login.
run winget upgrade
Expected behavior
winget upgrade should not upgrade a PWA app, which in this case is Element PWA.
Actual behavior
Winget upgrade upgrades Element PWA app and converts it to a Win32 app by downloading ~140MB of the Element messenger program files.
Environment
winget --info
Windows Package Manager (Preview) v1.4.2161-preview
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.25201.1000
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.19.2161.0
Logs: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir
Installed the PWA app using Microsoft Edge Dev Version 107.0.1379.1 (Official build) dev (64-bit)
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue with Microsoft Edge Dev, the Element PWA, and the supplied winget --info environment, then compare the results of winget list and winget upgrade. The issue is done when upgrading packages no longer converts or replaces the installed PWA with the Win32 Element application.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- powershell
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100