dependencyManagement does not inherit imported dependencies
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Key: MNG-3939
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3939
Project: Maven 2
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Dependencies
Affects Versions: 2.0.9
Reporter: Ben Dean
Attachments: maven-dependency-inherited-import.not-working.zip,
maven-dependency-inherited-import.working.zip
I've attached a zip that has two versions of the same multi-module project. In
the first version there is a parent-pom which defines a dependencyManagement
section with one dependency (junit 4.4). I child project then inherits from the
parent-pom and inherits the dependency management section including the version
number for junit. Then then child project can have a dependency for junit and
not care about the version number which is managed by the dependencyManagement
inherited from the parent.
In the second version, the dependencyManagement of the parent has been moved to
a dependency-pom. This makes sense because the dependencyManagement section for
a multi-module project could get huge and it would be nice to keep the
parent-pom small and clean and just import dependencyManagement as needed. The
problem is that the child project does not inherit these imported dependencies.
It seems to me that imported dependencyManagement sections should be inherited
too. This is the error given when the child doesn't what version of junit to
use:
Project ID: maven.dependency.example:child
POM Location: C:\sandbox\eclipse\default\maven example\child\pom.xml
Validation Messages:
[0] 'dependencies.dependency.version' is missing for junit:junit
This is somewhat related (maybe only tangentially) to the following issues:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3553
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2314
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3537
maybe more ...
However, all those other issues seem to involve a more complex example than
this issue. This issue is just dependencyManagement, import and inheritance.
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