invalid pom in maven central, for 0.8.0-beta1

I have been using a pom file for 0.8.0 that I hand-edited from the one
generated with sbt make:pom. Now that there's a version up on maven
central, I'm trying to use that.

It looks like the pom file hosted now on maven central, is invalid for
maven?

I'm looking at this:
http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/kafka/kafka_2.8.0/0.8.0-beta1/kafka_2.8.0-0.8.0-beta1.pom

It has 2 <dependencies> sections, which causes this error:

[WARNING] Invalid POM for org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.8.0:jar:0.8.0-beta1,
transitive dependencies (if any) will not be available, enable debug
logging for more details: 1 problem was encountered while building the
effective model
[FATAL] Non-parseable POM
/Users/jbr/.m2/repository/org/apache/kafka/kafka_2.8.0/0.8.0-beta1/kafka_2.8.0-0.8.0-beta1.pom:
Duplicated tag: 'dependencies' (position: START_TAG seen
...</dependencies>\n <dependencies>... @36:19) @ line 36, column 19
for project

It seems the offending section is:

<dependencies>
<exclude module="javax"/>
<exclude module="jmxri"/>
<exclude module="jmxtools"/>
<exclude module="mail"/>
<exclude module="jms"/>
<dependency org="org.apache.zookeeper" name="zookeeper" rev="3.3.4">
<exclude org="log4j" module="log4j"/>
<exclude org="jline" module="jline"/>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

Anyway, since I haven't heard of others having this issue, I'm a bit
perplexed. Is everyone just downloading and hosting their own hand edited
version of the is pom file?

I'm using maven 3.0.3 if that's relevant.

Jason