Github user bindul commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/maven-surefire/pull/173 @Tibor17 Thank you for your review. I agree with you that `version` check is not really useful in this use case, I put it in there as the JIRA ticket called for GAVT support and also to keep the format consistent with the other places maven defines gavtc. I am happy to remove the version check. If I do so, do you want the input configuration format to still be `groupId:artifactId[:version[:type[:classifier]]]` or would you rather it be `groupId:artifactId[:type[:classifier]]`. I will amend the commit based on your response.
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