Transitive dependencies override explicitly set scope. ------------------------------------------------------
Key: MNG-3890 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3890 Project: Maven 2 Issue Type: Bug Components: Dependencies Affects Versions: 2.0.9 Reporter: Stephan Kleine Priority: Critical Attachments: testcase.tar.bz2 Transitive dependencies override explicitly set scope. E.g. a project A depends on "Hibernate" with default scope and a project B depends on project A as well as on "Hibernate" for which it sets the scope explicitly to "provided". Further an EAR project C depends on project B (see the attached testcase). Now I would expect that C does not contain any jars for Hibernate and its dependencies since B explicitly set the scope to "provided". Sadly this is not the case and C contains all hibernate jars. The only way around this I have found is setting the scope to "provided" for Hibernate in A as well - which is just a crude hack that produces other issues. IMHO this is a bug because Maven should respect the overridden dependency scope since the current way forces me to set the scope to provided in A which is just wrong. Please try to get this fixed for 2.10 or 2.1 since it's a real pita atm. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira