diff --git a/common/tags/pom.xml b/common/tags/pom.xml
index 81191cb8f4a55..10dbd8ee3e837 100644
--- a/common/tags/pom.xml
+++ b/common/tags/pom.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.scalatest</groupId>
       <artifactId>scalatest_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>