Github user rmetzger commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1399#issuecomment-159224200
It seems that the `dependencyManagement` section is mainly intended to
control our versions.
So with a dependencyManagement section, you can make sure that we are using
the same zkclient across all our submodules (for all our declared zkclient
dependencies).
Since we didn't declare a zkclient dependency for the
flink-connector-kafka, the `dependencyManagement` doesn't have any effect for
other projects.
See also:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28312975/maven-dependencymanagement-version-ignored-in-transitive-dependencies
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