* Reinhard Poetz:

> seems to  be a  bug either  in M2  in general  or in  the Castor
> plugin in particular :-(

Indeed, an IRC user and  Maven developer, Trygve Laugst, with whom
I was chatting about this problem entered an issue here:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MOJO-246
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