Maven3 doesn't fail build when a pom from transitive dependency can't be found

Using maven 2.2.1 if i build my test plugin that has a dependency on a project, which has a dependency on another project that is inaccessible for whatever reason, the build fails w/ an error as i would expect

Downloading: http://repository.sonatype.org/content/groups/forge/org/codehaus/swizzle/swizzle-parent/1-SNAPSHOT/swizzle-parent-1-SNAPSHOT.pom
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.codehaus.swizzle:swizzle-parent:pom:1-SNAPSHOT' in repository sonatype-forge (http://repository.sonatype.org/content/groups/forge)
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[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
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[INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).

Project ID: org.codehaus.swizzle:swizzle-jira:jar:1.3.3-sonatype-2

Reason: Cannot find parent: org.codehaus.swizzle:swizzle-parent for project: org.codehaus.swizzle:swizzle-jira:jar:1.3.3-sonatype-2 for project org.codehaus.swizzle:swizzle-jira:jar:1.3.3-sonatype-2

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Doing this same build in maven3 gives me a warning rather than error, and the build continues

[WARNING] Invalid artifact metadata for org.codehaus.swizzle:swizzle-jira:jar:1.3.3-sonatype-2, transitive dependencies (if any) will not be available, enable debug logging for more details

This seems to me, that it is kind of hiding an error