[MNG-4939] transitive dependency exclusion fails when classifier specified on a subproject and building the root project.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.1
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Environment: Window XP, Java 6 u10
• Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
• Reporter: Sunil Kumar Dhage
• Created: 17/Dec/10 02:23
• Updated: 17/Dec/10 05:29
• Resolved: 17/Dec/10 05:29

Description

My issue is related to MNG-3555.

I have a root pom which has multiple child projects and poms.
For simplicity let us consider project Subproject1,Subproject2.

Subproject1 has a distribution.xml which will install a classifier based jar (Subproject1-1.0-distribution.jar)along with the actual Subproject1-1.0.jar
The Subproject1-1.0-distribution.jar contains only those classes which are used in Subproject2. And its size is something around 10KB and
the Subproject1-1.0.jar contains all the transitive dependencies and the complete functionality and the size is few MB.

Now I want to have the Subproject1-1.0-distribution.jar as a dependency in Subproject2 and I am excluding all the third party jars.

After going through closing comments of MNG-3555, I could understand that
I should exclude for the main dependency as well.

1.How can we mention that particular exclusion is for main dependency and particular exclusion is for classifier based dependency?

2. Do I need to create two dependencies one for Subproject1 and other with classifier?

Here my Subproject2 is in need of only Subproject1-1.0-distribution.jar only. Why should I create one more dependency and exclude the jars.

PS: 1. Interesting point is if I am building Subproject2 alone then the excluded jars are getting excluded
But when I build the root, then my Subproject2 will not be able to exclude the excluded jars.
2. If my Subproject2 has a similar dependency on SomeOther-1.0-distribution.jar, which is not a sibling, then either I build Subproject or I build root, all the excluded jars are getting excluded.

Issue Links

• duplicates: MNG-4872 Dependency exclusions not always honored for dependencies with classifier