sorry, that i'm so annoying ;-) >because this implies that at least one of the "fix" versions must have been >changed.
Thats not right (I think). Example: My dependency: DEP_A:1.0 Dependency of DEP_A => DEP_B:2.3 Dependency of DEP_B:2.3 => DEP_C:[1.0,) My dependency is fixed, and nothing changed. Some day, there is a new Version of DEP_C, so DEP_B:2.3 use this new version, because the dependency allows newer versions. U say, that this use case will neber happen? So Maven ignores version Range from DEP_B:2.3 to DEP_C ? If this is right, than thanks for all the comments ;-) And the my use case is really impossible... dave