[MNG-4530] Add alias feature for moved/renamed dependencies

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Paul Gier
• Created: 13/Jan/10 09:41
• Updated: 02/Jul/14 08:44
• Resolved: 22/Jan/14 20:31

Description

There should be an option to link multiple dependency groupId/artifactIds so that the dependency resolver knows they refer to the same artifact. There are many dependencies that get renamed to a new groupId/artifactId. This causes problems because many times the old groupId/artifactId is still pulled in transitively from other projects. Currently, the only way to do this is with a tedious combination of <excludes> tags and enforcer rules. It would be much simpler if there were a mechanism in the pom and dependency manager to treat two IDs as the same dependency.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.mycomp</groupId>
  <artifactId>log4j</groupId>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <aliases>
    <alias>
      <groupId>log4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
    <alias>
  </aliases>
<dependency>