From 7b952b87a3b9a5fad49e4e5ae165199d4c084c1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Schulte <schulte@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 21:55:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [MPLUGIN-296] java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
 org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Execute

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/plugin-tools/trunk@1728736 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml b/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml
index 2ab160e..eaf02b7 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -74,7 +74,10 @@
       <artifactId>maven-plugin-annotations</artifactId>
       <!-- from stricter view, should use ${mavenPluginToolsVersion} but this is causing problems with release plugin -->
       <!--version>${mavenPluginToolsVersion}</version-->
-      <scope>provided</scope>
+      <!--  
+        Do not use 'provided' scope here. The annotations are a transitive dependency of
+        'maven-plugin-tools-annotations' which fails to load at runtime when not available.
+      -->
     </dependency>
 
     <!-- doxia -->