Multiple versions of the same dependency in Maven

Question

Is it possible to declare multiple versions of the same dependency in a Maven repo?

I need these dependencies all at once:

Answer 1

This is how I got around it. FYI: In my case I was building a RPM.

I used the maven-dependency-plugin to copy the older dependency that gets ignored to a folder in the build directory and then copied that file to the staging area so that it's included in the RPM.

Here's the code to copy the older dependency:

  
    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-dependency-plugin
    3.1.1
    
      
        copy-dependencies
        prepare-package
        
          copy
        
        
          
            
              some.package.group.id
              someartifact-id
              1.2.3
              false
              ${project.build.directory}/older-dependencies
            
          
        
      
    
  

And then later on during the building of my RPM I included this scriptlet in the configuration section of my rpm-maven-plugin. This will copy the file to the staging area for the RPM: