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Project build fails when a dependency's parent cannot be found

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Description

### Affected version

3.9.11

### Bug description

If I have a dependency in my pom and the parent can not be resolved maven completely fails the build:

```
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal on project org.eclipse.compare.tests: Could not collect dependencies for project org.eclipse.platform:org.eclipse.compare.tests:eclipse-plugin:3.8.900-SNAPSHOT
Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.eclipse.platform:org.eclipse.platform.testing:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
Caused by: The following artifacts could not be resolved: org.eclipse.platform:eclipse.platform:pom:4.38.0-SNAPSHOT (absent): org.eclipse.platform:eclipse.platform:pom:4.38.0-SNAPSHOT was not found in https://repo.eclipse.org/content/repositories/eclipse/ during a previous attempt. This failure was cached in the local repository and resolution is not reattempted until the update interval of eclipse-hosted has elapsed or updates are forced

at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleDependencyResolver.getDependencies (LifecycleDependencyResolver.java:246)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleDependencyResolver.resolveProjectDependencies (LifecycleDependencyResolver.java:136)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.ensureDependenciesAreResolved (MojoExecutor.java:355)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.doExecute (MojoExecutor.java:314)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute (MojoExecutor.java:212)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute (MojoExecutor.java:174)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.access$000 (MojoExecutor.java:75)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor$1.run (MojoExecutor.java:162)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultMojosExecutionStrategy.execute (DefaultMojosExecutionStrategy.java:39)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute (MojoExecutor.java:159)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject (LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:105)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject (LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:73)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build (SingleThreadedBuilder.java:53)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute (LifecycleStarter.java:118)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute (DefaultMaven.java:261)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute (DefaultMaven.java:173)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute (DefaultMaven.java:101)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute (MavenCli.java:906)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain (MavenCli.java:283)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main (MavenCli.java:206)
at jdk.internal.reflect.DirectMethodHandleAccessor.invoke (DirectMethodHandleAccessor.java:103)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:580)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced (Launcher.java:255)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch (Launcher.java:201)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode (Launcher.java:361)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main (Launcher.java:314)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.DependencyResolutionException: Could not collect dependencies for project org.eclipse.platform:org.eclipse.compare.tests:eclipse-plugin:3.8.900-SNAPSHOT
Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.eclipse.platform:org.eclipse.platform.testing:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
Caused by: The following artifacts could not be resolved: org.eclipse.platform:eclipse.platform:pom:4.38.0-SNAPSHOT (absent): org.eclipse.platform:eclipse.platform:pom:4.38.0-SNAPSHOT was not found in https://repo.eclipse.org/content/repositories/eclipse/ during a previous attempt. This failure was cached in the local repository and resolution is not reattempted until the update interval of eclipse-hosted has elapsed or updates are forced

at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectDependenciesResolver.resolve (DefaultProjectDependenciesResolver.java:160)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleDependencyResolver.getDependencies (LifecycleDependencyResolver.java:227)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleDependencyResolver.resolveProjectDependencies (LifecycleDependencyResolver.java:136)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.ensureDependenciesAreResolved (MojoExecutor.java:355)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.doExecute (MojoExecutor.java:314)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute (MojoExecutor.java:212)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute (MojoExecutor.java:174)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.access$000 (MojoExecutor.java:75)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor$1.run (MojoExecutor.java:162)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultMojosExecutionStrategy.execute (DefaultMojosExecutionStrategy.java:39)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute (MojoExecutor.java:159)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject (LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:105)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject (LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:73)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build (SingleThreadedBuilder.java:53)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute (LifecycleStarter.java:118)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute (DefaultMaven.java:261)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute (DefaultMaven.java:173)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute (DefaultMaven.java:101)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute (MavenCli.java:906)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain (MavenCli.java:283)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main (MavenCli.java:206)
at jdk.internal.reflect.DirectMethodHandleAccessor.invoke (DirectMethodHandleAccessor.java:103)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:580)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced (Launcher.java:255)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch (Launcher.java:201)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode (Launcher.java:361)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main (Launcher.java:314)

```

This can become quite annoying if for example you do a local development or if there are "bad" dependencies in central/nexus.

I'm quite sure that in previous versions of maven this only results in a warning that dependency resolution might be incomplete.

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