That is a failure in the packaging <-> file extension mapping facilities
in archiva/trunk
Other examples (from codein archiva branch):
typeToExtensionMap.put( "ejb-client", "jar" );
typeToExtensionMap.put( "ejb", "jar" );
typeToExtensionMap.put( "distribution-tgz", "tar.gz"
I'm using archiva to proxy http://dist.codehaus.org (maven1-legacy
repository)
This repo contains xdoclet2 maven plugin :
http://dist.codehaus.org/xdoclet/maven-plugins/
Having configured archiva as a mirror, maven tries to download :
http://archiva:8080/repository/maven/xdoclet/maven2-xdoclet2-