[MNG-7493] [REGRESSION] Resolving dependencies between submodules fails

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.8.5
• Fix Version/s: 3.8.6, 3.9.0, 4.0.0-alpha-2, 4.0.0
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Michael Osipov
• Reporter: stephane geneix
• Created: 02/Jun/22 20:55
• Updated: 20/Oct/22 08:11
• Resolved: 03/Jun/22 10:02

Description

see attached file for a set of projects that trigger the issue. I've tried to reduce it to the minimal set of files necessary to reproduce the issue
There's a README with the command to execute as well.

The description is as follow : 

We have one main package (package0) that declares 2 modules (package1 and package2).
package1 and package2 both declare a package3 as their parent.
package1 has a dependency on package2
package2 has a pom dependency on package0

compiling package1 works on 3.8.4 (or 3.6.3) but fails on 3.8.5.
Here's the error text : 

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project package1: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.example:package1:jar:0.0.1: Failed to collect dependencies at org.example:package2:jar:0.0.1: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.example:package2:jar:0.0.1: Could not transfer artifact org.example:package0:pom:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT from/to nexus-snapshots (https://[XXX]/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots): authentication failed for https://[XXX]/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/org/example/package0/0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/package0-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.pom, status: 401 Unauthorized -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 

I believe that the 401 unauthorized is a red herring. Even after cleaning up the ~.m2/repository, the problem persists on 3.8.5, but everything works on 3.8.4.

I'm not exactly clear as to why there is such a dependency between all those packages, but the fact that the new maven version is broken is a significant problem in our CI systems

Issue Links

• is fixed by: MNG-7432 [REGRESSION] Resolver session contains non-MavenWorkspaceReader