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Didier Loiseau commented on MNG-5761: ------------------------------------- I thought this inconsistency would be better tracked as a bug than as part of this feature request, so I created MNG-8295. I think the current behavior of Maven 4.0.0-beta-4 is worse than with Maven 3. [~schulte77], I think if the dependency management transitivity can be implemented in a consistent manner, maybe your work on 3.4 might not have been entirely lost, even if it happens 10 years later 😉 I think it makes sense to have this change in a major release though. > 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, depending-pom2.xml > > > 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 (v8.20.10#820010)