Artifact has not been packaged yet

Question

I am letting Maven copy some dependency files into a specific location for a GWT project. The maven-dependency-plugin does the job and so far it works. The only

Answer 1

For those returning to this question, it may be useful to report seeing the same problem in Eclipse against maven-dependency-plugin version 2.8. This was in the package phase:

Artifact has not been packaged yet. When used on reactor artifact, copy should be executed after packaging: see MDEP-187. (org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:copy:copy-proguard:package)

In this case upgrading to 3.1.1 solved the problem:

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-dependency-plugin
    3.1.1
    
        
            copy-proguard
            package
            
                copy
            
            ...