My understanding is: 1) No, central will not be cleaned. No changes are done to central as it might break builds. 2) http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEV 3) I don't think so. The pom(s) you've found are old ones before the rules were enforced (or even existed possibly)
/Anders On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:58, Stevo Slavić <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Maven users, > > By this guide< > http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-central-repository-upload.html > >it > seems to be forbidden to upload artifacts to central with POMs that > reference other repositories, so that central repo is self-contained. Even > with this rule there seem to be many artifacts on central which reference > non-central repositories. Dependencies report mojo from > maven-project-info-reports plugin seems to pick up these repositories > declared in dependencies too, displaying build-hanging warnings on them > like > > > "[WARNING] The repository url 'http://maven.springframework.org/external' > is > invalid - Repository 'spring-external' will be blacklisted." > > (btw http://maven.springframework.org/external repository is defined in > org.springframework.ws:spring-ws-parent) > > Will central be cleaned up from these artifacts? > Is there an issue where one could report such invalid POMs? > Is the policy regarding repository references different when external > repositories are being synced to central? > > Regards, > Stevo. >
