diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 2087075ef4b..20ceb7e1c44 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -665,7 +665,6 @@
     <sign-artifact input.file="${dist}/${fullnamever}.zip" output.file="${dist}/${fullnamever}.zip.asc"/>
 
     <!-- Maven artifacts -->
-    <sign-maven-artifacts artifact.id="solr-common"/>
     <sign-maven-dependency-artifacts artifact.id="solr-commons-csv"/>
     <sign-maven-artifacts artifact.id="solr-core"/>
     <sign-maven-artifacts artifact.id="solr-dataimporthandler"/>
diff --git a/src/maven/solr-core-pom.xml.template b/src/maven/solr-core-pom.xml.template
index b083c3b8493..20764bb96e9 100644
--- a/src/maven/solr-core-pom.xml.template
+++ b/src/maven/solr-core-pom.xml.template
@@ -39,11 +39,6 @@
   <dependencies>
 
     <!-- Solr -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>
-      <artifactId>solr-common</artifactId>
-      <version>@maven_version@</version>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>
       <artifactId>solr-solrj</artifactId>