maven tomcat plugin keeps growing war when using snapshot version

Question

the pom.xml excerpt below shows the structure of the project that leads to ever an ever growing war file:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
     ...
    </parent>
    <artifactId>...</artifactId>
    <packaging>war</packaging>
    <name>...</name>
    <description>...</description>
    <dependencies>
        <!-- ...-->
        <dependency>
            <artifactId>...</artifactId>
            <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
            <version>${project.version}</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <!-- tomcat deployment -->
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <url>...</url>
                    <server>...</server>
                    <path>...</path>
                    <webXml>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

the war contains as many jar files as the local maven repository has timestamped snapshot versions.

How can this be reduced to just the current version?

I have found a workaround in:

• How do you deal with maven-3 timestamped snapshots efficiently?

to use another maven plugin to remove superfluous timestamped snapshot version jars

And i have filed a bug report at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MTOMCAT-268

Answer 1

this problem was fixed by some vodoo. Very strange