[MNG-4744] Validate coordinates of dependency exclusions

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0-beta-1
• Fix Version/s: 3.0-beta-2
• Component/s: Dependencies, POM
• Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
• Reporter: Benjamin Bentmann
• Created: 30/Jul/10 05:40
• Updated: 30/Jul/10 05:45
• Resolved: 30/Jul/10 05:45

Description

The coordinates for exclusons should be subject to the same validation as dependencies, i.e. groupId&artifactId should be valid IDs. Maven itself doesn't care, but a typo in there or an attempt to use wildcards will cause surprises to users so let's emit a warning.