[jira] (MNG-5761) picks wrong version for transitive dependencies

["Jeff Schnitzer (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

Jeff Schnitzer created MNG-5761:
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             Summary: <dependencyManagement> picks wrong version for transitive dependencies
                 Key: MNG-5761
                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5761
             Project: Maven
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Dependencies
    Affects Versions: 3.2.5
            Reporter: Jeff Schnitzer


A detailed description of the issue is here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28312975/maven-dependencymanagement-version-ignored-in-transitive-dependencies

The short of it is that maven appears to be using the wrong <dependencyManagement> version in a transitive dependency.  There are two relevant <dependencyManagement> sections in the build, one pulled in by guice and one pulled in by gwizard-parent. These are the dependency paths from the top:

gwizard-example -> gwizard-config -> gwizard-parent
gwizard-example -> gwizard-config -> guice -> guice-parent

gwizard-parent's dependencyManagement specifies guice 18
guice-parent's dependencyManagement specifies guice 16

Guice 16 is winning. This seems highly undesirable, and in fact it breaks our build. I would expect that in a version # fight, "closest to the top" should win.



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