Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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3.0-alpha-3
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None
Description
Consider the attached project, which builds in Maven 2.1. The "parent" project has a dependencyManagement section that declares the version of JUnit as 3.8.1. The "child" project has duplicate dependency entries for junit; neither one declares a version.
Maven 3 generates a very misleading error message; it took a long time for me to figure out the real cause of the problem.
c:\Temp\scratch\parent>mvn clean [INFO] Scanning for projects... [ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1] [ERROR] The project bug:child:1.0-SNAPSHOT (C:\Temp\scratch\parent\child\pom.xml) has 2 errors [ERROR] 'dependencies.dependency.(groupId:artifactId:type:classifier)' must be unique: junit:junit:jar -> null vs null [ERROR] 'dependencies.dependency.version' is missing for junit:junit:jar [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ProjectBuildingException
I expected an error more like:
'dependencies.dependency.(groupId:artifactId:type:classifier)' must be unique: junit:junit:jar -> duplicate declaration of 3.8.1
That would have been MUCH more helpful.