Direct report generation breaks on skin version even though it is specified

/ggg/src/site/site.xml contains the skin declaration like this:
<skin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.skins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-default-skin</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</skin>

In /ggg I can run
mvn site
without a problem (it does compile the code though).
but if I run
mvn project-info-reports:dependencies
That breaks with this error message:

[INFO] The skin does not exist: Unable to determine the release version

Try downloading the file manually from the project website.

Then, install it using the command:
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.apache.maven.skins -DartifactId=maven-default-skin \
-Dversion=RELEASE -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file

org.apache.maven.skins:maven-default-skin:jar:RELEASE