Unable to pack unpacked solution that contains an unpacked canvasapp

[anubhav247]

Hey team,

Looking for some advice here..

Environment - Dev contains a solution which i am trying to deploy to Environment Demo.
This solution has a bunch of components in it including model driven apps and canvasapps
Following the best practices for ALM, i did the following steps

1. Exported solution using pac CLI - i got a solution.zip file
2. Unpacked solution using pac CLI - i can see all the source files but canvasapp is still in .msapp format
3. unpacked canvasapp using pac CLI - i can see all the source files for this canvasapp along with the .msapp format
4. added .msapp to the git ignore and then checked the code into git repo
5. created a Azure devops pipeline to push the solution to demo environment and below are the tasks in my yml file
6. PowerPlatformToolInstaller@2 - runs successfully
7. PowerPlatformWhoAmi@2 - runs successfully
8. PowerPlatformPackSolution@2 with ProcessCanvasApps: true - this step fails with error ".msapp not found and ProcessCanvasApps: true deprecated" as shown below
   
   if ProcessCanvasApps is deprecated then should it be visible here in azure devops?
   
   and i dont see any other task available for dealing with canvasapps
   am using the latest versiopn of build tools as seen below..
   

What do you suggest?