Publish: dropping index when it is used for foreign key constraint enforcement

Hi,
I'm trying to update a target schema from a reference database via Publish. Among the changes to apply, there's an index that needs to be dropped. Since it's linked to a foreign key constraint, it cannot be deleted unless the foreign key is temporarily dropped
(I saw somewhere that disabling the foreign key should be enough but it doesn't seem to work either).
Since there are other changes to be made on the same table, this foreign key also has to be dropped before the script can delete the table and re-create it. This part of the script is correctly generated. The problem is that this part appears after the 'DROP
INDEX' instruction.
So when generating the update script, SSDT tries to drop the index BEFORE dropping the foreign key. And I can't drop the foreign key in my custom pre-deployment script, otherwise the update script would fail when trying to delete it again.
Shouldn't SSDT be smart enough to drop the constraint before the index? Is it a bug or did I forget to set an option? If it's not a bug, what can I do apart from doing it manually?
Thank you for your help

Hi Elsa,
That sounds like a bug. Could you please file a Connect issue for this at
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/CreateFeedback.aspx using the category "Developer Tools (SSDT, BIDS, etc.)"? We're trying to track all bugs through
Connect so that you can tell when we have fixed the issue and we can request more information.
A workaround for this issue might be to write a pre-deployment script for your project to drop the foreign key prior to deployment. A pre-deployment script can be added to your project by right-clicking on the
project in solution explorer and then clicking on Add > Script... and selecting Pre-Deployment Script from the list.
Thanks!

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