Github user pwendell commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/507#issuecomment-41338894
Excluding it, if possible, would be great.
@tmalaska The issue is just that if you hard-code a newer version of a
dependency it can break Spark for users of e.g. older hadoop versions - so we
need to be careful. We officially support Hadoop 1.X in Spark and many people
still use it.
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