Report plugins with inherited=false dropped by profile injector

• Complexity:

  Intermediate
• Testcase included:

  yes

Consider the following POM snippet:

<reporting>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>2.3</version>
      <inherited>false</inherited>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</reporting>

<profiles>
  <profile>
    <id>extended-site</id>
    <reporting>
      ... some other plugins but excluding the surefire-report-plugin ....
    </reporting>
  </profile>
</profiles>

When running "mvn site -P extended-site", the Surefire Report Plugin will be excluded from the site output.

For some reason, the DefaultProfileInjector is dropping plugins which have inherited=false. Inheritance shouldn't matter here, it's all about the same POM, no parent-child play.

Attached is a unit test to show the failure. An IT will follow now that I have the JIRA ticket.