Your tar file is polluted with ._ stuff that ends up laying around the place. Aside from that:
3.1.1 succeeds. 3.3.3 fails The description of what is wrong/your expectation could be better. I guess I would expect it to fail, but fail because relative path POM version doesn't match that specified. On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5840 > > Can some other people see if this test case I attached to this issue is > replicated in their environments? > > I've been badly bitten by this a couple of times (and worse for me, I have > a project that needs 3.3.1+ to build due to bugs that were only fixed in > the 3.3 series) > > I only now had the time to try and create a minimal test case > > -Stephen >