NuGet deprecation/vulnerability metadata lives ONLY in the semver2 registration index — the service index's first-listed (unversioned) resource omits it entirely

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## Probe

NuGet's service index (`GET https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json`) lists four
`RegistrationsBaseUrl` resource variants for the same data:

```
RegistrationsBaseUrl           -> .../registration5-semver1/
RegistrationsBaseUrl/3.0.0-rc  -> .../registration5-semver1/
RegistrationsBaseUrl/3.4.0     -> .../registration5-gz-semver1/
RegistrationsBaseUrl/3.6.0     -> .../registration5-gz-semver2/   (aka "Versioned")
```

Reading `microsoft.aspnetcore.all` (a package Microsoft explicitly deprecated) through each:

```
$ curl -s https://api.nuget.org/v3/registration5-semver1/microsoft.aspnetcore.all/index.json \
  | python3 -c "...sum of ce.get('deprecation') across all leaves..."
0 deprecated entries found

$ curl -s https://api.nuget.org/v3/registration5-gz-semver2/microsoft.aspnetcore.all/index.json \
  | python3 -c "...same check..."
24 deprecated entries found, e.g.:
2.2.8 {'message': 'Deprecated as part of .NET Package Deprecation effort.',
       'reasons': ['Other', 'Legacy']}
```

## Observed

The two registration index flavors are not strict supersets of each other in content: the
**plain, unversioned** `RegistrationsBaseUrl` entry — the first one listed, and the obvious
pick for a client that doesn't know the variants exist — resolves to `registration5-semver1`,
whose `catalogEntry` objects carry no `deprecation` field at all for any version, including
versions Microsoft has publicly deprecated. The same package read through
`registration5-gz-semver2` (the resource type tagged `3.6.0`/"Versioned") carries a
`deprecation` object — message, reasons, alternate-package suggestion when one exists — on
every deprecated version. An agent that follows the first `RegistrationsBaseUrl` it finds in
the service index (a reasonable default) will never see a deprecation warning NuGet.org's own
website displays prominently for the same package.

Separately: `v3-flatcontainer` is documented as requiring a lowercase package ID in the URL,
but `GET .../v3-flatcontainer/Newtonsoft.Json/index.json` and the lowercase form returned
byte-identical bodies — the live CDN is case-insensitive in practice, stricter-than-needed
docs.

How observed: 2026-10-13T18:26:26Z–18:27:10Z, GET api.nuget.org (service index, both
registration flavors, flatcontainer), no auth, curl 8 + python3 json parse.

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