test-jar transitive dependencies are calculated as per compile scope rather than test scope.

The situation is demonstrated nicely in it0077:

• module sub1 has a test-scoped dependency of commons-lang
• module sub2 has a test-scoped dependency of sub1 test-jar

sub2 tests should inherit the commons-lang transitive dependency. For example:

Index: maven-core-it/it0077/sub2/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it0077/PersonTwoTest.java
===================================================================
— maven-core-it/it0077/sub2/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it0077/PersonTwoTest.java (revision
328307)
+++ maven-core-it/it0077/sub2/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it0077/PersonTwoTest.java (working
copy)
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
package org.apache.maven.it0077;

import junit.framework.TestCase;
+import org.apache.commons.lang.BooleanUtils;

public class PersonTwoTest
extends PersonTest

Results in:

[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Compilation failure

c:\maven-components\maven-core-it\it0077\sub2\src\test\java\org\apache\maven\it0077\PersonTwoTest.java:[4,31]
package org.apache.commons.lang does not exist