unused-exclude-by-conf for transitive dependency

[fparga]

I added gradle-lint-plugin as a dependency of my java project. In my gradle file I have amongst other things:

buildscript {
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.netflix.nebula:gradle-lint-plugin:latest.release'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'nebula.lint'
gradleLint.rules = ['all-dependency']

configurations {
    all*.exclude group: 'com.google.code.guice', module: 'guice'
}

dependencies {
    compile 'org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-guice:2.3.7.Final'
}

When I run ./gradlew lintGradle it reports the error:

warning   unused-exclude-by-conf             the exclude dependency is not in your dependency graph, so has no effect
all*.exclude group: 'com.google.code.guice', module: 'guice'

And if I run ./gradlew fixGradleLint it removes that configuration, but resteasy-guice:2.3.7.Final depends on com.google.code.guice:guice:2.0 so it's now in my dependency graph...

Am I doing something wrong?

Note: my project uses gradle 2.10

[troessner]

We're suffering from the same bug - any updates on this one?