Github user zentol commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4827#discussion_r146986377
--- Diff: flink-runtime/pom.xml ---
@@ -427,17 +427,42 @@ under the License.
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
+ <!-- we need this to
avoid having to specify all of akka's dependencies -->
+
<promoteTransitiveDependencies>true</promoteTransitiveDependencies>
--- End diff --
Why exactly do we need this? AFAIK you can shade transitive dependencies
without promoting them.
---
