maven.scm.bootstrap.pom.dir is not used

I have a flat directory structure in CVS, with my maven files in a directory called "maven". Like this:

module

• project1/project.xml
• project2/project.xml
• ...
• maven/project.xml (master project which all others inherit)

The checkout is fine but then it seems the maven scm:bootstrap-project goal can't find my maven/project.xml:

[maven@orgsld08 tmp]$ maven -Dmaven.scm.method=cvs -Dmaven.scm.cvs.module=sources-malibu -Dmaven.scm.bootstrap.pom.dir=maven -Dmaven.scm.bootstrap.goals=multiproject:deploy,multiproject:site,site:deploy scm:bootstrap-project

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[cvs] U sources-malibu/maven/logo/cs_logo.jpg
[cvs] U sources-malibu/maven/logo/logo_new_rvb.jpg

BUILD FAILED
File...... /export/home/cgey/maven/.maven/cache/maven-scm-plugin-1.4/plugin.jelly
Element... maven:maven
Line...... 158
Column.... 9
Error parsing project.xml '/export/home/cgey/maven/tmp/target/checkouts/sources-malibu/project.xml'
Total time: 24 minutes 52 seconds
Finished at: Thu Oct 28 16:22:36 CEST 2004

I've used -Dmaven.scm.bootstrap.pom.dir=maven so I think it should look in $module/maven which for me is sources-malibu/maven/project.xml but it doesn't find it.

Brett confirmed that it looks like a bug and asked me to file it in JIRA. I had the same problem about 4 months ago and finally gave up on it, so it looks to me like this has been broken for quite a while.

Thanks,
Michael