diff --git a/surefire-providers/pom.xml.releaseBackup b/surefire-providers/pom.xml.releaseBackup
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
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-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
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-  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
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-  ~     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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-  -->
-
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-
-  <parent>
-    <groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
-    <artifactId>surefire</artifactId>
-    <version>3.0.0-M8-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  </parent>
-
-  <artifactId>surefire-providers</artifactId>
-  <packaging>pom</packaging>
-
-  <name>SureFire Providers</name>
-  <description>SureFire Providers Aggregator POM</description>
-
-  <modules>
-    <module>common-junit3</module>
-    <module>common-java5</module>
-    <module>common-junit4</module>
-    <module>common-junit48</module>
-    <module>surefire-junit3</module>
-    <module>surefire-junit4</module>
-    <module>surefire-junit47</module>
-    <module>surefire-junit-platform</module>
-    <module>surefire-testng-utils</module>
-    <module>surefire-testng</module>
-  </modules>
-
-  <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
-      <artifactId>surefire-api</artifactId>
-      <version>${project.version}</version>
-    </dependency>
-  </dependencies>
-
-  <build>
-    <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-        <dependencies>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
-            <artifactId>surefire-shadefire</artifactId>
-            <version>3.0.0-M7</version> <!-- ${shadedVersion}, but resolved due to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-799 -->
-          </dependency>
-        </dependencies>
-      </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-  </build>
-</project>
-