>automagic to replace dependency A by >dependency B cause B is in a dependency management (your case since commons >compress are different dependencies)
Romain, I do not think I am asking for automatic replacement of dependency A by B. In my case, commons-compress-core 2.0.0 depends via dependencyManagemnt on commons-compress 2.0.0 bom. I want Maven to bump commons-compress from 1.0.0 to 2.0.0 based on that dependencyManagement info. In other words, I would like Maven to select a highest version among the versions mentioned in <dependencies> and <dependencyManagement> blocks in my transitive dependency poms. Vladimir
