not exactly: the question is not about parent and childs, but about
pluginManagement injection into build plugins, which works exactly like
dependencyManagement injection into dependencies
if you define a precise version in the build plugins (or in a dependency),
dependencyManagement does not
Suppose I have a parent pom that makes use of the maven-enforcer-plugin.
As a matter of fact I do, and it's public, so you can follow along at home:
parent
groupIdorg.sonatype.oss/groupId
artifactIdoss-parent/artifactId
version7/version
/parent
Looking at that pom, there is this