Exception forcing Maven and wilcard

I am using Maven plugin to check convergence compliance. Given this (contrived) example:

project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>warren</groupId>
  <artifactId>warren</artifactId>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>warren Maven Webapp</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>net.sf.jtidy</groupId>
      <artifactId>jtidy</artifactId>
      <version>r938</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-tools</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-plugin-tools-api</artifactId>
      <version>2.5.1</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  <build>
    <finalName>warren</finalName>

    <!-- The Maven Enforcer -->
    <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>1.4</version>
      <dependencies>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
          <artifactId>extra-enforcer-rules</artifactId>
          <version>1.0-beta-2</version>
        </dependency>
      </dependencies>
      <executions>
        <!-- ******************************************************* -->
        <!-- Ensure that certain really important things are checked -->
        <!-- and fail the build if any of these are violated         -->
        <!-- ****************************************************** -->
        <execution>
          <id>enforce-important-stuff</id>
          <goals>
            <goal>enforce</goal>
          </goals>
          <phase>validate</phase>
          <configuration>
            <rules>
              <requireMavenVersion>
                <version>3.2.1</version>
              </requireMavenVersion>
              <requireJavaVersion>
                <version>1.7</version>
              </requireJavaVersion>
              <DependencyConvergence />
              <bannedDependencies>
                <searchTransitive>true</searchTransitive>
                <excludes>
                  <!-- Should be javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:3.0.1 -->
                  <exclude>javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.*</exclude>
                  <!-- Should be org.springframework:3.2.* . Note this is
                       for the core spring framework. Others such as
                       WS etc may be different, but the convergence to the underlying
                       core Spring framework should be the same -->
                  <exclude>org.springframework:2.*</exclude>
                  <exclude>org.springframework:3.0.*</exclude>
                  <exclude>org.springframework:3.1.*</exclude>&gt;
                  <!-- Should be slf4j 1.7.5 with logback and
                       bridges to JCL, JUL and log4j (this means these
                       individual libraries should not be included as the
                       "bridges" implement the API and redirect to the
                       underlying SLF4j impl -->
                  <exclude>log4j:log4j</exclude>
                  <exclude>commons-logging</exclude>
                  <exclude>org.slf4j:1.5*</exclude>
                  <exclude>org.slf4j:1.6*</exclude>
                </excludes>
              </bannedDependencies>
            </rules>
            <failFast>true</failFast>
          </configuration>
        </execution>
        <execution>
          <id>warn-about-stuff-which-may-cause-problems</id>
          <goals>
            <goal>enforce</goal>
          </goals>
          <phase>validate</phase>
          <configuration>
            <rules>
              <banDuplicateClasses>
                <ignoreClasses>

                </ignoreClasses>
                <findAllDuplicates>true</findAllDuplicates>
              </banDuplicateClasses>
            </rules>
            <fail>false</fail>
          </configuration>
        </execution>
      </executions>
    </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

      

        
        
        
      

    

I am getting this output:

[ERROR] +-warren:warren:1.0-SNAPSHOT
[ERROR] +-org.apache.maven.plugin-tools:maven-plugin-tools-api:2.5.1
[ERROR] +-org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils:1.5.6
[ERROR] and
[ERROR] +-warren:warren:1.0-SNAPSHOT
[ERROR] +-org.apache.maven.plugin-tools:maven-plugin-tools-api:2.5.1
[ERROR] +-org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-container-default:1.0-alpha-9-stable-1
[ERROR] +-org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils:1.0.4

      

        
        
        
      

    

So, I naively thought I could change my pom to use templating exceptions to avoid this problem, e.g .:

<dependency>
  <groupId>net.sf.jtidy</groupId>
  <artifactId>jtidy</artifactId>
  <version>r938</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-tools</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-plugin-tools-api</artifactId>
  <version>2.5.1</version>
  <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
      <groupId>*</groupId>
      <artifactId>*</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
</dependency>

      

        
        
        
      

    

but Maven ignores wildcards and I get the same error. The only way to fix the error is to explicitly specify the group and artifact IDs.

  <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
      <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
      <artifactId>plexus-utils</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
  </exclusions>

      

        
        
        
      

    

Can pattern exceptions be used in this situation? Note. I tried using maven 3.0.5, 3.2.1 and 3.3.3 but no luck!

Many thanks