Tristan Miller created MNG-5524:
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Summary: mvn release:prepare reformats pom.xml comments
Key: MNG-5524
URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5524
Project: Maven 2 & 3
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 3.1.1
Environment: openSUSE 12.3 (x86-64)
Reporter: Tristan Miller
Attachments: pom.xml
We have a Maven project that contains licence headers as XML comments in the
pom.xml files. We use a licence checker plugin which checks for the presence
of these licence headers.
It seems the mvn release:prepare command subtly reformats the XML comments.
The licence checker runs after this reformatting, and fails since the licence
header is no longer an exact match to the reference text. The problem occurs
with the following comment lines:
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Maven inserts some extra whitespace:
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses />.
I suspect this is a bug in Maven (or whatever XML parser it relies on). Maven
should not reformat XML comments (and especially not in a URL where whitespace
is significant).
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