Tom Eugelink wrote:

> 
>> What means "not compatible" for a single artifact? If my application only
>> uses a constant defined in some class, the dependency is only
>> incompatible if this constant is no longer available, has a different
>> type or a value that causes a failure situation in my own app.
>>
>> You can define real incompatibility only from the consumer side. So what
>> could Maven actually report by default?
> 
> It is a real world scenario that at some time a library is purged; that
> @deprecated methods are actually deleted, that API's are refactored. Such
> a version is no longer backwards compatible.

If my app did not use the methods that have been removed, it is - at least 
for my application.

- Jörg


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