NuGet pack is ignoring assembly info

I was also experiencing issues in this regard; my updates to AssemblyInfo didn't seem to be being picked up - despite me building and rebuilding, etc.

I was able to resolve the issue by explicitly telling NuGet to build (in my case in Release, with pdb symbols):

nuget pack foo.csproj -Build -Symbols -Properties Configuration=Release

I think the problem was that I hadn't built my project since modifying the AssemblyInfo. I did a rebuild and it's working now.

(As a side note, I also had the <dependencies> in the wrong section - it should be inside of <metadata> - but that was not causing the error in my question.)