I can re-create the FTBFS error. Adding a build dependency on libaether-java resolves that issue but then the following compilation error occurs:
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Compilation failure /tmp/buildd/maven-dependency-tree-2.0/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/shared/dependency/graph/internal/Maven3DependencyGraphBuilder.java:[76,19] error: method buildDependencyNode in class Maven3DependencyGraphBuilder cannot be applied to given types; I'll try and investigate the cause.