[m2e-dev] Auto-refresh and imported dependencyManagement poms

[Anton Tanasenko <atg.sleepless@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I was looking into adding support for auto-refresh of projects when any of the poms they import dpmgmt from is modified (see [1]).

But the problem is that maven effectively replaces those imports with actual imported deps: DefaultModelBuilder#importDependencyManagement() erases original nodes from model.

Could maven be fixed to retain those imports in some way?

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=435692#c15