Pulsar Broker 2.11.0-SNAPSHOT maven dependency is broken

[eolivelli]

Describe the bug
If I create a Maven project that depends on pulsar-broker, 2.11.0-SNAPSHOT, when I build it Maven enters an infinite loop while resolving the dependencies.

To Reproduce

1. Build current Pulsar master locally
2. create a Maven project with a dependency on pulsar-broker, 2.11.0-SNAPSHOT
3. build the project

[lhotari]

I ran into a maven infinite loop recently and the resolution was #15234.

[eolivelli]

thanks @lhotari

Adding this to my pom.xml unblocked the situation.

      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.pulsar</groupId>
        <artifactId>pulsar</artifactId>
        <version>${pulsar.version}</version>
        <type>pom</type>
        <scope>import</scope>
      </dependency>

But I believe we have to fix the problem, otherwise many users will fall into troubles while updating their code.
It is very common to depend on pulsar-broker at least for tests

[lhotari]

But I believe we have to fix the problem, otherwise many users will fall into troubles while updating their code.

It's probably a Maven bug similar to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5592 . Perhaps a workaround is the only suitable approach?

[eolivelli]

I am using Maven 3.8.5, the problem is still there.

we should git bisect the changes in master branch and find out the problem.
it will take much time...

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