OK, thanks! I believe these rules existed before year 2009. Here<http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/ws/spring-ws-parent/1.5.8/>is one such pom<http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/ws/spring-ws-parent/1.5.8/spring-ws-parent-1.5.8.pom>uploaded in August 2009, and another one<http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/castor/castor/1.3.0.1/castor-1.3.0.1.pom>uploaded in September 2009., org.apache:apache:6:pom from April 2009 has external snapshot repo, jetty-parent:11 pom<http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/eclipse/jetty/jetty-parent/11/jetty-parent-11.pom>from July 2009 has both external repositories and pluginRepositories defined, ...
Regards, Stevo. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Anders Hammar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > >
