Are you sure you know how to spell checkstyle?

On 14 December 2011 09:54, Andreas Sewe
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have encountered a very odd failure when adding the
> maven-checkstyle-plugin to my pluginManagement section. Below is the
> simplest POM that triggers this error (both under Maven 3.0.3 and
> 3.0.4-RC3):
>
>> <project ...>
>>   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
>>   <groupId>org.example</groupId>
>>   <artifactId>example</artifactId>
>>   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
>>   <build>
>>     <pluginManagement>
>>       <plugins>
>>         <plugin>
>>           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
>>           <artifactId>maven-ckeckstyle-plugin</artifactId>
>>           <version>2.8</version>
>>         </plugin>
>>     </pluginManagement>
>>   </build>
>> </project>
>
> A "mvn clean install" runs just fine, but as soon as someone actually
> tries to do something with the pluginManagement entry (a "mvn
> help:effective-pom" already triggers this), I get the following warning.
>
>> [WARNING] The POM for 
>> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-ckeckstyle-plugin:jar:2.8 is missing, no 
>> dependency information available
>> [WARNING] Failed to retrieve plugin descriptor for 
>> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-ckeckstyle-plugin:2.8: Plugin 
>> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-ckeckstyle-plugin:2.8 or one of its 
>> dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for 
>> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-ckeckstyle-plugin:jar:2.8
>
> Note the packaging of "jar" in the above. AFAIK, it should be
> "maven-plugin" instead.
>
> At any rate, the above is really an error rather than a mere warning.
> Any attempt to actually use the maven-checkstyle-plugin in build/plugins
> uses the plugin's default configuration rather than any configuration
> configured build/pluginManagement/plugins.
>
> I strongly suspect this is a bug. Can someone please point me to the
> right issue tracker for this? (I don't think it's the plugin's fault.)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Andreas
>
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