diff --git a/container-test/pom.xml b/container-test/pom.xml
index ed33c0ba4cd1..32a64a98b9e1 100644
--- a/container-test/pom.xml
+++ b/container-test/pom.xml
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
       <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
+    <dependency> <!-- TODO: Remove on Vespa 9 -->
       <!-- not used by Vespa, but was historically on test classpath -->
       <groupId>org.json</groupId>
       <artifactId>json</artifactId>
diff --git a/parent/pom.xml b/parent/pom.xml
index b019db32e93b..62d57660bcf9 100644
--- a/parent/pom.xml
+++ b/parent/pom.xml
@@ -994,7 +994,7 @@
                 <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
                 <version>2.12.2</version>
             </dependency>
-            <dependency>
+            <dependency> <!-- TODO: Remove on Vespa 9 -->
                 <groupId>org.json</groupId>
                 <artifactId>json</artifactId>
                 <version>${org.json.version}</version>