A depends on property B, and property B depends on property C and so on.
  </description>

  <properties>
    <!--
    NOTE: Both the ordering (i.e. neither ascending nor descending) and the number of properties is crucial to
    exhibit the bug.
    -->
    <property23>${property22}</property23>
    <property21>${property20}</property21>
    <property19>${property18}</property19>

    - If users want all of Guava, they depend on guava, which, as of Guava
    27.0, depends on
    listenablefuture-9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava. The 9999.0-...
    version number is enough for some build systems (notably, Gradle) to select
    that empty artifact over the "real" listenablefuture-1.0 -- avoiding a
    conflict with the copy of ListenableFuture in guava itself. If users are

    - If users want all of Guava, they depend on guava, which, as of Guava
    27.0, depends on
    listenablefuture-9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava. The 9999.0-...
    version number is enough for some build systems (notably, Gradle) to select
    that empty artifact over the "real" listenablefuture-1.0 -- avoiding a
    conflict with the copy of ListenableFuture in guava itself. If users are