Elliotte Rusty Harold created MNG-6621:
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Summary: Document how versions of a direct dependency's transitive
dependencies are selected.
Key: MNG-6621
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6621
Project: Maven
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Documentation: General
Reporter: Elliotte Rusty Harold
Situation:
a:a depends on foo:foo:2.1
foo:foo:2.1 depends on baz:baz:3.2
baz:baz:3.2 depends on guava:guava:25.0-android
However, foo:foo:2.1 imports a BOM (or inherits from a parent pom) that
specifies that guava:guava:27.1-jre will be used.
So which version of guava:guava does a:a add to its classpath, 25.0-android or
27.1-jre? I think the answer is 25.0-android. That is, the dependency
management from the middle of the tree is ignored when building a:a.
However I don't think the docs ever say this. They need to.
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