Releasing with pom submodule fails

the repository and packages project have are pom submodules. Other modules in the build depend on those.
The release plugin (set to 2.0-beta-8 in the parent pom) fails to resolve the pom module as a dependency.

So say there are there are 2 sub-modules, A (pom), B (jar), with B depending on A. Then the release plugin will fail, indicating that it cannot find A, when the version numbers have been bumped to their tag version.

I don't know if this problem has been fixed in more recent versions of the release plugin; quickly scanning the recent maven release-plugin jira issues didn't reveal a match.