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Rick Moritz commented on MNG-5761: ---------------------------------- I assume this was dropped so far, as it will potentially break working builds, and therefore was unsuitable for dot-releases. Now that it has been re-scheduled for 4.0, is there reason to be hopeful, that this feature will be included there? Given that good progress is being made on 4.0.0-alpha, yet there's no assignee for this (previously fixed?) issue, I'm somewhat worried, that it could end up on the cutting floor once more - and then likely for another 5-10 years, as the "not a major release" argument will the be just as valid as before. > Dependency management is not transitive. > ---------------------------------------- > > Key: MNG-5761 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5761 > Project: Maven > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Dependencies > Affects Versions: 3.2.5 > Reporter: Jeff Schnitzer > Priority: Critical > Fix For: 4.0.x-candidate > > Attachments: MNG-5761.zip > > > A detailed description of the issue is here: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28312975/maven-dependencymanagement-version-ignored-in-transitive-dependencies > The short of it is that maven appears to be using the wrong > <dependencyManagement> version in a transitive dependency. There are two > relevant <dependencyManagement> sections in the build, one pulled in by guice > and one pulled in by gwizard-parent. These are the dependency paths from the > top: > gwizard-example -> gwizard-config -> gwizard-parent > gwizard-example -> gwizard-config -> guice -> guice-parent > gwizard-parent's dependencyManagement specifies guava 18 > guice-parent's dependencyManagement specifies guava 16 > Guava 16 is winning. This seems highly undesirable, and in fact it breaks our > build. I would expect that in a version # fight, "closest to the top" should > win. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)