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[MDEP-895] dependency:sources fails for multi-module project
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**[Gerd Aschemann](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=ascheman)** opened **[MDEP-895](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MDEP-895?redirect=false)** and commented
When executing `mvn dependency:sources` on a multi-module project it fails to retrieve sources for the modules themselves (which is not necessary as the source code is provided locally already):
```java
mvn dependency:sources
...
[INFO] -----< org.apache.maven.its.dependency:tree-multimodule-module-b >------
[INFO] Building MultimoduleTest Module B 1.0-SNAPSHOT [3/3]
[INFO] from module-b/pom.xml
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary for MultimoduleTest 1.0-SNAPSHOT:
[INFO]
[INFO] MultimoduleTest .................................... SUCCESS [ 0.390 s]
[INFO] MultimoduleTest Module A ........................... SUCCESS [ 0.063 s]
[INFO] MultimoduleTest Module B ........................... FAILURE [ 0.005 s]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.587 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2023-11-09T10:38:16+01:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project tree-multimodule-module-b: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.apache.maven.its.dependency:tree-multimodule-module-b:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT: The following artifacts could not be resolved: org.apache.maven.its.dependency:tree-multimodule-module-a:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT (absent): Could not find artifact org.apache.maven.its.dependency:tree-multimodule-module-a:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT -> [Help 1]
```
This is similar to the behaviour of MDEP-409.
A test and PR is already prepared: https://github.com/jmle/maven-dependency-plugin/tree/fix-sources-multimodule
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**Affects:** 3.6.1
**Issue Links:**
- [MDEP-900](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MDEP-900) dependency:resolve fails for multi-module project
(_**"is cloned by"**_)
- [MDEP-941](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MDEP-941) Deprecate dependency:sources in favor of dependency:resolve-sources
(_**"causes"**_)
**Remote Links:**
- [GitHub Pull Request #349
](https://github.com/apache/maven-dependency-plugin/pull/349)
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