if (!outputDirectory.toFile().exists()) {
            return true;
        }

        try (Stream<Path> outputFiles = Files.walk(outputDirectory)) {
            // Not using File#lastModified() to avoid a Linux JDK8 milliseconds precision bug: JDK-8177809.
            long artifactLastModified =
                    Files.getLastModifiedTime(packagedArtifactFile.toPath()).toMillis();

        File metadataFile = new File(localRepository.getBasedir(), metadataPath);
        return metadataFile.isFile() ? new Date(metadataFile.lastModified()) : null;
    }

    private void mergeMetadata(
            RepositoryMetadata metadata,
            List<ArtifactRepository> remoteRepositories,
            ArtifactRepository localRepository)