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Currently upstream modules will be built automatically if their JAR is missing entirely. They should also perhaps be rebuilt if their JAR is older than their source manifest (or project.properties), or just if there is a dependency on them that is newer than the current spec version in the JAR. This typically means an API change was made and you need to rebuild the upstream module.
Do clean build.