diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index dccdaf0d2..059588c5d 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ before_install:
   - psql -c 'CREATE DATABASE test_db;' -U postgres
   - psql -U postgres test_db < extensions/database/tests/conf/travis-pgsql.sql
   - cp extensions/database/tests/conf/travis_tests.xml extensions/database/tests/conf/tests.xml
+  - cp packaging/travis_pom.xml packaging/pom.xml
   - mvn process-resources
 
 script:
diff --git a/packaging/travis_pom.xml b/packaging/travis_pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d1a63bbce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packaging/travis_pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	 xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <groupId>org.openrefine</groupId>
+  <artifactId>packaging</artifactId>
+  <packaging>pom</packaging>
+  <version>3.0</version>
+
+  <name>OpenRefine - dummy packaging</name>
+  <description>Dummy packaging for travis</description>
+  <url>http://openrefine.org/</url>
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.openrefine</groupId>
+    <artifactId>openrefine</artifactId>
+    <version>3.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+</project>
+