Error when uploading UWP app to Windows Store: Failed to merge PRI file \Resources_split.scale-100.pri

Question

I am uploading a latest version of my app to the Windows store but my app is throwing the error:

Package acceptance validation error: We encountered a

Answer 1

I also had issues with similar error and disabling ARM and tweaking .csproj options did not help.

What did the trick for us unbundling, bundling and resigning the package. This was input from Microsoft support team after months of "communication".

Basically we unzipped .appxupload file and performed following commands on .appxbundle file.

makeappx.exe unbundle /v /p <>.appxbundle /d "temp"
makeappx.exe bundle /v /p <>_rebundled.appxbundle /d "temp"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.18362.0\x64\signtool.exe" sign /fd SHA256 /a /f "<>" <>_rebundled.appxbundle

After this I zipped sym files and newly bundled .appxbundle to .appxupload file