MAVEN, json-simple 1.1.1 depends on Junit

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
On central maven repo, 
http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.googlecode.json-simple/json-simple/1.1.1 
json-simple pom reference junit in its dependencies.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
junit deps should be in test scope

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.1.1

Please provide any additional information below.
json-simple comes with junit wich leads to conflicts in maven projects using 
json-simple

Thanks

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 23 Sep 2013 at 2:15

[gordysc]

Any chance we could please get a release of this to Maven Central? The JUnit library being included in shaded libraries is unnecessary bloat and can generating annoying classpath overlap warnings.

[gordysc]

Any news on getting this release out?

[loegering]

I just want to note that this issue has been addressed in my fork (which is fully compatible with this library if you're using java 7+). You can find more details about it here: https://cliftonlabs.github.io/json-simple/

[xbcbqc]

Hello would it be possible to release a new version of this library? The code is fixed but there is no artifact of json-simple available without junit in the dependencies. Thanks

[loegering]

@xbcbqc https://cliftonlabs.github.io/json-simple/ you can use this release for json-simple without junit in in your project.

[xbcbqc]

Ok thanks. I need to communicate with the other project because it's a transitive lib in my dependencies.

[loegering]

Sure thing, just a heads up: you can use version 2.3.1 of the one I linked to be fully backwards compatible with this project.