This should be treated as a bug. Many builds, including ours, relies on being
able to override properties defined in the parent hierarchy in a module POM.
This change you are describing would break a lot of builds...
> On Aug 12, 2016, at 8:41 AM, Samuel Langlois <samuel.langl...@alfresco.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I noticed a change of behaviour in Maven 3.4, which made one of our builds
> fail.
> It may be a bit of a corner case, so I'll let someone else decide whether
> it's a regression or a bug fix...
>
> We have a submodule where the "parent" pom contains a dependency with
> scope=import, but with the version set using a property:
> <dependencyManagement>
> <dependencies>
> <dependency>
> <groupId>org.alfresco</groupId>
> <artifactId>alfresco-platform-distribution</artifactId>
> <version>${alfresco.version}</version>
> <type>pom</type>
> <scope>import</scope>
> </dependency>
>
> In the submodule itself, we override this version to be a more recent one:
> <properties>
> <alfresco.version>5.1.e</alfresco.version>
> </properties>
>
> In Maven 3.3 and before, the override is working, and we inherit version
> 5.1.e of the dependencies.
> In maven 3.4, it doesn't any more, so we get older versions of the
> dependencies.
>
> It works fine if I move the property override to the parent pom, i.e. the
> one where the import dependency is defined.
> I've just retested using the latest 3.4.0-SNAPSHOT from 2016-08-06
>
> Thanks for your insight
> --
> Samuel
>
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