Does the Jenkins Manage Plugins page display a warning if a plugin has a missing dependency?

[Robert Kruck]

Does the Jenkins "Manage Plugins" page display a warning, if a Jenkins Plugin has a missing dependency?

Example: If Jenkins Plugin "A" requires Jenkins Plugin "B" as a dependency, and I installed Jenkins Plugin "A"  only, would a warning about the missing Jenkins Plugin "B" appear in the Jenkins "Manage Plugins" page?

I have researched this issue for some time on the internet - at present it appears that some Jenkins plugins have this sort of automated dependency checking, but others don't.

Please advise; I was thinking of making a spreadsheet to show the dependencies of the Jenkins Plugins we currently use - but if Jenkins has automated dependency checking for all its Plugins, such a spreadsheet would obviously be a waste of time. 

[Baptiste Mathus]

Using the plugin manager, asking for a plugin installation will trigger the installation of its (plugin) dependencies.

If it does not, then it's probably a bug in that plugin, and you want to file it.

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[geoffroy...@gmail.com]

Please note that if you have installed plugins manually by downloading the .jpi file into the $JENKINS_HOME/plugins folder before starting jenkins, then dependency resolution is not automatically performed at jenkins startup.

So if you install plugin A, you must also install plugin B or else jenkins might fail at startup

Not sure how it works if you manually upload plugin A, and it requires plugin B...

[Stephen Connolly]

Manual upload completely bypasses the dependency handling.

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Not anymore, in very recent versions, the dependencies will be downloaded and installed see https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/2239

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