[MNG-8051] Combine dependency scopes instead of overriding

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.9.6
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: James Howe
• Created: 13/Feb/24 10:48
• Updated: 05/Jun/24 11:03

Description

I discovered this situation when combining these dependencies:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.hibernate.orm</groupId>
  <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
  <version>6.4.1.Final</version>
  <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>io.github.openfeign.querydsl</groupId>
  <artifactId>querydsl-apt</artifactId>
  <classifier>jpa</classifier>
  <version>6.0.2</version>
  <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

This results in two copies of a transient dependency on jakarta.inject:jakarta.inject-api, one with runtime scope and one with provided scope. In my case, Maven resolves this to a single dependency at runtime scope, which causes the build to fail.

Instead, the two scopes should logically combine into the compile scope. While this can be manually achieved with <dependencyManagement>, it would be nice if Maven did this automatically.