> Libraries don't declare version ranges for their transitive dependencies That's the behavior that Maven itself recommends, so Maven is at least part of the p

> Libraries don't declare version ranges for their transitive dependencies That's the behavior that Maven itself recommends, so Maven is at least part of the problem. Maven could also sanity-check your build for these issues by default, but it doesn't; it leaves that up to plugins, which you have to configure (in XML) in your build file every time you set up a new project.