Invalid Maven POM file for the desugar_jdk_libs_configuration artifact

Issue

See the artifact POM file for desugar_jdk_libs_configuration version 0.11.0 at https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/android/tools/desugar_jdk_libs_configuration/0.11.1/desugar_jdk_libs_configuration-0.11.1.pom

section:

<dependencies>
    <groupId>com.android.tools</groupId>
    <artifactId>desugar_jdk_libs</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.1</version>
</dependencies>

This section omits <dependency> .. </dependency> tags from inside <dependencies> .. </dependencies>.

It should be

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.android.tools</groupId>
        <artifactId>desugar_jdk_libs</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.1</version>
    <dependency>
</dependencies>

Details

Works fine if used directly from Gradle as

dependencies {
  coreLibraryDesugaring 'com.android.tools:desugar_jdk_libs:1.0.5'
}

as detailed at https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support

But we are using the Artifactory (https://jfrog.com/artifactory/) as a dependency proxy in our CI setup. All CI builds use dependencies via Artifactory. And Artifactory will either return a cached dependency or fetch it from the original source and cache it and return it. This enables us to still build the app on the CI even if in an offline situation.

Artifactory is unable to download the desugar_jdk_libs_configuration befause of the invalid format:

2020-06-08 09:56:03,680 [http-nio-8081-exec-23633] [ERROR] (o.a.r.d.DbStoringRepoMixin:283) - IO error while trying to save resource Google_maven:com/android/tools/desugar_jdk_libs_configuration/0.11.1/desugar_jdk_libs_configuration-0.11.1.pom'': org.artifactory.api.repo.exception.maven.BadPomException: Failed to read POM for 'com/android/tools/desugar_jdk_libs_configuration/0.11.1/desugar_jdk_libs_configuration-0.11.1.pom': Unrecognised tag: 'groupId' (position: START_TAG seen ...<dependencies>\n    <groupId>... @23:14) .