diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b7aa5b07546545c01330a76ef3392ca13e672f17..f3898c720d98edb3cb4ae46f82a701a9e0a6bc09 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
             <groupId>no.bioforsk.vips.common</groupId>
             <artifactId>VIPSCommon</artifactId>
             <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
@@ -17,6 +18,13 @@
             <version>4.10</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
+            <version>1.9.12</version>
+            <type>jar</type>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>