Maven doesn't detect invalid dependency descriptions in the pom

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Maven doesn't detect that the following pom snippet is not valid:

[...]
<dependencies>
<groupId>jdom</groupId>
<artifactId>jdom</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependencies>
[...]

if 'mvn compile' is run on the included test project, this is what happens:

tik@tweety:~/Develop/testpom$ mvn compile
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building testproject
[INFO] task-segment: [compile]
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [resources:resources]
[INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] [compiler:compile]
Compiling 1 source file to /home/tik/Develop/testpom/target/classes
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Compilation failure

/home/tik/Develop/testpom/src/main/java/TestClass.java:[1,16] package org.jdom does not exist

/home/tik/Develop/testpom/src/main/java/TestClass.java:[5,12] cannot find symbol
symbol : class Element
location: class TestClass

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
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[INFO] Total time: 2 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Jan 08 19:23:14 CET 2007
[INFO] Final Memory: 3M/8M
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