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ASF GitHub Bot commented on MSOURCES-81: ---------------------------------------- GitHub user peterlynch opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/maven-plugins/pull/58 MSOURCES-81 add jar maven descriptor if configured Note: maven-archiver dependency version was upgraded to take advantage of MavenProject.clone(), which avoids having the new unit test from creating a maven-archiver directory in the maven-source-plugin basedir because the MavenProject() constructor used in 2.5 does not copy the build element. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/sonatype/maven-plugins MSOURCES-81-maven-descriptor Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/maven-plugins/pull/58.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #58 ---- ---- > allow sources jar to contain Maven descriptor > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: MSOURCES-81 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSOURCES-81 > Project: Maven Source Plugin > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 2.4 > Reporter: Peter lynch > > The source:jar mojo explicitly prevents the Maven descriptor from being added > to the produced -sources.jar file. > https://github.com/apache/maven-plugins/blob/trunk/maven-source-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/source/AbstractSourceJarMojo.java#L292-292 > I could not find an explanation or technical reason why this is done. > Adding the maven descriptor to the source jar can help expose valuable > information about the build that produced it. > Expected: > - allow the archiver used to create the source jar to respect the plexus > archiver configuration if it is configured to include the Maven descriptor. > - preserve the default behaviour of not including the Maven descriptor, for > (unknown) backwards compatibility reasons only -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)