The fact that the text GH copies to the clipboard contains "[VERSION]" instead of the latest actual version should tell us this feature is in its infancy. Do we know anyone at GH?
Gary On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 2:12 PM Benedikt Ritter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > GitHub recently introduced a feature where it tries to figure out how many > other projects depend on you project. This is shown in the UI with a "Used > By" drop down button. When clicking that button one can copy the dependency > declaration. In case of Commons Lang this will generate [1]: > > <dependency> > <groupId>commons-lang</groupId> > <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId> > <version>[VERSION]</version> > </dependency> > > This is incorrect since the coordinates for the 3.x line are > org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.x > I think we should find out how we can fix this. Maybe infra can fix it? > Furthermore we should check all our GitHub mirrors whether they have the > correct coordinates for our components. > > Regards, > Benedikt > > [1] https://github.com/apache/commons-lang >
