diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 24d408d..8d8a7fb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -149,6 +149,10 @@
           <pomIncludes>
             <pomInclude>*/pom.xml</pomInclude>
           </pomIncludes>
+          <pomExcludes><!-- failing actually with m-dependency 2.6: will require 2.8 -->
+            <pomExclude>maven-version/pom.xml</pomExclude>
+            <pomExclude>mshared-167/pom.xml</pomExclude>
+          </pomExcludes>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
           <execution>