2011/12/14 Stephen Connolly <[email protected]> > Smells like a bug... > > Yes it does. However I debugged the process and noticed that the "getClassifier" of org.apache.maven.artifact.Artifact class contains an emtpy String. This is the reason why I cannot decide if it is a Maven bug (not treating empty classifier element correctly to convert it into null) or assembly plugin (not treating the empty string classifier correctly to manage it as it was null).
Antonio
