[jira] [Created] (MDEP-490) Add flag to analyze-dep-mgt goal to ignore exclusion errors

["Jonathan Haber (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Jonathan Haber created MDEP-490:
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             Summary: Add flag to analyze-dep-mgt goal to ignore exclusion errors
                 Key: MDEP-490
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MDEP-490
             Project: Maven Dependency Plugin
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Jonathan Haber


I would like to run the analyze-dep-mgt goal with failBuild=true, but it doesn't work because of exclusion errors. One common example is libraries that accidentally depend on junit at compile scope instead of test scope. When I encounter a library like this, I add an exclusion on junit. But I have junit in my dependency tree at test scope, so my build fails with a message like:

{quote}
[INFO] junit:junit:jar was excluded in DepMgt, but version 4.11 has been found in the dependency tree.
{quote}

I think the simplest fix is to add a flag to the analyze-dep-mgt goal to ignore exclusion errors. I just want to use the goal to check for version mismatches, if I want to enforce banned dependencies the maven-enforcer-plugin has more robust support for this. I implemented this change in [this|https://github.com/apache/maven-plugins/pull/54] pull request. 



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