What means "not compatible" for a single artifact? If my application only
uses a constant defined in some class, the dependency is only incompatible
if this constant is no longer available, has a different type or a value
that causes a failure situation in my own app.
You can define real incompatibility only from the consumer side. So what
could Maven actually report by default?
It is a real world scenario that at some time a library is purged; that
@deprecated methods are actually deleted, that API's are refactored. Such a
version is no longer backwards compatible.
Tom
