Unfortunately, our bcel dependency is a transitive dependency from a jBoss
pom, so I can't easily change that one either.

For the record, I do not disagree that strict pom validation is a good idea,
nor do I disagree that it is the responsibility of the artifact producer to
produce a correct pom.  I just wanted to point out that introducing
mandatory validation without some sort of escape (e.g.
-Dskip.pom.validation=true) will inconvenience some developers.  For now, I
have to choose between hosting a few extra artifacts or remaining with maven
2.2.1 while pinging on a few developers to update their artifacts...

John Singleton

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Wayne Fay <[email protected]> wrote:

> > bcel/bcel/5.1 and ant-contrib/ant-contrib/1.0b3.  Both of these poms are
> > structurally incorrect:
>
> bcel moved to o.a.bcel and has a 5.2 release with a proper pom file:
>
> http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2/org/apache/bcel/bcel/5.2/bcel-5.2.pom
>
> ant-contrib 1.03b does look to be wrong, you should ping that
> team/list to ask them to push a new build (1.03b is from Jan 2009)
> that has, among other things, a proper pom file (and hopefully a more
> sensible version number)
>
> > original question remains - is this maven behavior intended and, if so,
> can
> > we increase the urgency of fixing bad poms in maven central (
> repo1.maven.org)
> > so I don't have to host a lot of already-available artifacts just to fix
> > their metadata?
>
> Fixing bad metadata is generally the responsibility of the dev team
> who is producing the artifacts.
>
> Wayne
>
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