update-parent does not respect -DallowMajorUpdates

[askoog]

The update-parent goal does not respect the properties allowMajorUpdates, allowMinorUpdates and allowIncrementalUpdates that use-latest-version goal uses. This is somewhat confusing (even though the documentation states that the property is not used)

Example pom file

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"     
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">  
        <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>                                                                   
                                                                                                             
        <parent>                                                                                             
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>                                                      
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>                                              
            <version>1.5.22.RELEASE</version>                                                                
        </parent>                                                                                            
                                                                                                             
        <artifactId>test-pom</artifactId>                                                                    
</project>                                                                                                   

Updating the parent version will update to a new major version even if allowMajorUpdates is declared

$ mvn versions:update-parent -DallowMajorUpdates=false
...
[INFO] -----------------< org.springframework.boot:test-pom >------------------
[INFO] Building test-pom 1.5.22.RELEASE
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- versions-maven-plugin:2.2:update-parent (default-cli) @ test-pom ---
[INFO] Updating parent from 1.5.22.RELEASE to 2.5.1
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Since, for example the java version used and other breaking changes might be inherited from the parent, there should be a way to update the parent without updating to a new major version

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