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Christian Schulte commented on MNG-5971:
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We cannot change the way the {{import}} scope is defined. We could introduce a
new scope {{include}} behaving exactly the way you describe. Since that scope
would be processed very early (before inheritance and interpolation), you
cannot use any features like property expansion.
{code}
<dependency>
<groupId>must be a constant</groupId>
<artifactId>must be a constant</artifactId>
<version>must be a constant</version>
<scope>include</scope>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
{code}
Will provide a 3.4.0-SNAPSHOT later today.
> Dependency management in a child project cannot override a version using a BOM
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MNG-5971
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5971
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Dependencies
> Affects Versions: 3.3.3
> Reporter: Stephane Nicoll
> Priority: Trivial
> Labels: close-pending
>
> When a project extends from a parent with a {{dependencyManagement}} section,
> it is not always possible to properly override (and align) the version to use
> for a group of dependencies.
> We typically use Bill Of Materials to gather a group of modules and make sure
> their versions are consistent.
> The following project demonstrates the issue:
> https://github.com/snicoll-scratches/maven-dependency-management
> The first commit is a working use case where the parent uses a bom with
> version A and we use the same bom with version B in the child. Version B is
> used as expected.
> The second commit demonstrates the faulty scenario. Rather than using a bom
> in the parent, we use a direct dependency (provided by that bom). We still
> use the bom with a different version. In that case all the dependencies but
> the one provided by the parent are overridden (leading to mixed versions for
> the dependencies provided by the BOM).
> It looks like the distance is still used to compute the version while the
> graph of dependencies should be flatten at each step for a proper override.
> Thoughts? Thanks!
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