Dependency incorrectly reported as "Unused declared" when using annotations with RetentionPolicy=Runtime

In one project we're using only JPA annotations (e.g. javax.persistence.Table; RetentionPolicy=RUNTIME) from one dependency.

We're declaring the dependency as PROVIDED (but scope=COMPILE fails too):

       <dependency>
            <groupId>com.ibm.ws</groupId>
            <artifactId>jpa-thinclient</artifactId>
            <version>7.0.0.17.OM01</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

The dependency gets incorrectly reported as "Unused declared":

[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:analyze-only (analyze) @ my-project ---
[WARNING] Unused declared dependencies found:
[WARNING]    com.ibm.ws:jpa-thinclient:jar:7.0.0.17.OM01:provided