diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 42bab895747..e8f40ea081e 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
                (Alexey Kovyrin via Stack)
    HBASE-2334  Slimming of Maven dependency tree - improves assembly build
                speed (Paul Smith via Stack)
+   HBASE-2336  Fix build broken with HBASE-2334 (Lars Francke via Lars George)
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-1760  Cleanup TODOs in HTable
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 95048e3b2a8..2d7295f742f 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -262,13 +262,11 @@
      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
      <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
      <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.jruby</groupId>