diff --git a/src/it/MDEPLOY-318-invalid-pom/invoker.properties b/src/it/MDEPLOY-318-invalid-pom/invoker.properties
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index c32d7bb5..00000000
--- a/src/it/MDEPLOY-318-invalid-pom/invoker.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-
-invoker.goals = clean jar:jar deploy:deploy
diff --git a/src/it/MDEPLOY-318-invalid-pom/pom.xml b/src/it/MDEPLOY-318-invalid-pom/pom.xml
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index 2ac4f83c..00000000
--- a/src/it/MDEPLOY-318-invalid-pom/pom.xml
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@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-
-<!--
-Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-distributed with this work for additional information
-regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-specific language governing permissions and limitations
-under the License.
--->
-
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-
-  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.deploy.invalid-pom</groupId>
-  <artifactId>test</artifactId>
-  <version>1.0</version>
-  <packaging>pom</packaging>
-
-  <description>
-    Tests the deployment of a simple release POM.
-  </description>
-
-  <properties>
-    <maven.test.skip>true</maven.test.skip>
-  </properties>
-
-  <distributionManagement>
-    <repository>
-      <id>it</id>
-      <url>file:///${basedir}/target/repo</url>
-    </repository>
-  </distributionManagement>
-
-  <build>
-    <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>@mavenCompilerPluginVersion@</version>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>@project.version@</version>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>@mavenInstallPluginVersion@</version>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>@mavenResourcesPluginVersion@</version>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>@mavenSurefirePluginVersion@</version>
-      </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-  </build>
-
-</project>