Artifact not found resolving dependencies with packaging/type "eclipse-plugin"

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I'm currently writing a JaCoCo gradle plugin and have a dependency on the JaCoCo modules. Unfortunately, the pom for the modules specifies that the jar files have packaging "eclipse-plugin". This appears to translate into a resolved dependency which, when printed, looks like:

[[ResolvedArtifact dependency:org.jacoco:org.jacoco.agent:0.5.6.201201232323;default name:org.jacoco.agent classifier:null extension:eclipse-plugin type:eclipse-plugin]

Dependency resolution then fails with:

Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':services:agent:testRuntime'.
Cause: Artifact 'org.jacoco:org.jacoco.agent:0.5.6.201201232323@eclipse-plugin' not found

It seems that, because it is using Ivy under the covers, Gradle is falling victim to IVY-899 .

An example pom from one of the JaCoCo modules:

<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>org.jacoco.build</artifactId>
<version>0.5.6.201201232323</version>
<relativePath>../org.jacoco.build</relativePath>
</parent>

<artifactId>org.jacoco.report</artifactId>
<packaging>eclipse-plugin</packaging>
<name>JaCoCo :: Report</name>
<description>JaCoCo Reporting</description>

<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
<artifactId>org.jacoco.core</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
<sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
</build>
</project>

Is there a workaround available in Gradle (SBT has one for example)?