Looking for an external artifact taht exists, although it finds it and outputs the right setting (setting maven.deploy.skip=true), it display the wrong name '@ mypoc' $ mvn org.honton.chas:exists-maven-plugin:0.1.0:remote -Dexists.project=org.company.myproject.app:app-rs-web:1.15.0.1 -Dexists.artifact=app-rs-web-1.15.0.1.war [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------< org.company:mypoc >--------------------------- [INFO] Building mypoc Maven Test Webapp 1.9.4.0-SNAPSHOT [INFO] --------------------------------[ war ]--------------------------------- [INFO] [INFO] --- exists-maven-plugin:0.1.0:remote (default-cli) @ mypoc --- [INFO] setting maven.deploy.skip=true [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 2.983 s [INFO] Finished at: 2019-09-26T09:34:40+02:00 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The same happens when looking for an unexisting version $ mvn org.honton.chas:exists-maven-plugin:0.1.0:remote -Dexists.project=org.company.myproject.app:app-rs-web:1.15.1.1 -Dexists.artifact=app-rs-web-1.15.1.1.war [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------< org.company:mypoc >--------------------------- [INFO] Building mypoc Maven Test Webapp 1.9.4.0-SNAPSHOT [INFO] --------------------------------[ war ]--------------------------------- [INFO] [INFO] --- exists-maven-plugin:0.1.0:remote (default-cli) @ mypoc --- [INFO] org.company.myproject.app:app-rs-web:1.15.1.1 does not exist [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 3.354 s [INFO] Finished at: 2019-09-26T09:47:39+02:00 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------