Issues using karaf-assembly packaging

[Christopher Arnold]

All,

I'm trying to build a custom karaf assembly and I've run into multiple 
issues with the karaf-maven-plugin and the behavior of the 
[boot/installed/startup]features configuration with respect to 
installing artifacts into the system repository:

1) in a feature bundles marked dependency="true" are not installed into 
system repository
2) in a feature configFile elements referencing mvn url's are not 
installed into system repository
3) even with addTransitiveFeatures=true it only seems to follow one 
feature back when adding bundles (e.g. if featureA depends featureB 
depends featureC, bundles in featureC are not installed into the system 
repository)

(1) seems to already be reported in 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-2596 but I haven't found 
references to the others in JIRA.  Is there a rational for these 
behaviours or would these be eligible to reports as bugs?

Thanks,
-Chris