diff --git a/src/main/groovy/com/github/benmanes/gradle/versions/updates/Resolver.groovy b/src/main/groovy/com/github/benmanes/gradle/versions/updates/Resolver.groovy
index 1e2dbd76..f841119d 100644
--- a/src/main/groovy/com/github/benmanes/gradle/versions/updates/Resolver.groovy
+++ b/src/main/groovy/com/github/benmanes/gradle/versions/updates/Resolver.groovy
@@ -130,8 +130,12 @@ class Resolver {
       copy.setCanBeResolved(true)
     }
 
+    // Resolve using the latest version of explicitly declaired dependencies and retains those
+    // inherited from the super configurations (which may be required for variant resolution).
+    Set<Dependency> inherited = (configuration.allDependencies - configuration.dependencies)
     copy.dependencies.clear()
     copy.dependencies.addAll(latest)
+    copy.dependencies.addAll(inherited)
 
     addRevisionFilter(copy, revision)
     addCustomResolutionStrategy(copy, currentCoordinates)
diff --git a/src/test/resources/maven/com/google/inject/guice-parent/2.0/guice-parent-2.0.pom b/src/test/resources/maven/com/google/inject/guice-parent/2.0/guice-parent-2.0.pom
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7f1fc854
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/maven/com/google/inject/guice-parent/2.0/guice-parent-2.0.pom
@@ -0,0 +1,386 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+Copyright (c) 2006 Google, Inc. All rights reserved.
+
+This program is licensed to you under the Apache License Version 2.0,
+and you may not use this file except in compliance with the Apache License Version 2.0.
+You may obtain a copy of the Apache License Version 2.0 at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the Apache License Version 2.0 is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the Apache License Version 2.0 for the specific language governing permissions and limitations there under.
+-->
+
+<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>
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>com.google</groupId>
+    <artifactId>google</artifactId>
+    <version>5</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+  <groupId>com.google.inject</groupId>
+  <artifactId>guice-parent</artifactId>
+  <version>2.0</version>
+
+  <name>Google Guice</name>
+
+  <description>
+    Guice is a lightweight dependency injection framework for Java 5 and above
+  </description>
+
+  <url>http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/</url>
+  <inceptionYear>2006</inceptionYear>
+
+  <organization>
+    <name>Google, Inc.</name>
+    <url>http://www.google.com</url>
+  </organization>
+
+  <mailingLists>
+    <mailingList>
+      <name>Guice Users List</name>
+      <archive>http://groups.google.com/group/google-guice/topics</archive>
+      <subscribe>http://groups.google.com/group/google-guice/subscribe</subscribe>
+      <unsubscribe>http://groups.google.com/group/google-guice/subscribe</unsubscribe>
+      <post>http://groups.google.com/group/google-guice/post</post>
+    </mailingList>
+    <mailingList>
+      <name>Guice Developers List</name>
+      <archive>http://groups.google.com/group/google-guice-dev/topics</archive>
+      <subscribe>http://groups.google.com/group/google-guice-dev/subscribe</subscribe>
+      <unsubscribe>http://groups.google.com/group/google-guice-dev/subscribe</unsubscribe>
+      <post>http://groups.google.com/group/google-guice-dev/post</post>
+    </mailingList>
+  </mailingLists>
+
+  <scm>
+    <connection>scm:svn:http://google-guice.googlecode.com/svn/trunk</connection>
+    <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://google-guice.googlecode.com/svn/trunk</developerConnection>
+    <url>http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/source/browse</url>
+  </scm>
+
+  <issueManagement>
+    <system>Google Code</system>
+    <url>http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/issues/</url>
+  </issueManagement>
+
+  <ciManagement>
+    <system>Hudson</system>
+    <url>https://grid.sonatype.org/ci/job/Google-Guice/</url>
+  </ciManagement>
+
+  <licenses>
+    <license>
+      <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
+      <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
+      <distribution>repo</distribution>
+    </license>
+  </licenses>
+
+  <modules>
+    <module>core</module>
+    <module>extensions</module>
+  </modules>
+
+  <prerequisites>
+    <maven>3.0</maven>
+  </prerequisites>
+
+  <properties>
+    <!--
+     | The spec version of the public Guice API
+    -->
+    <guice.api.version>1.3</guice.api.version>
+    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    <!--
+     | Use "-Dguice.with.jarjar=false" to build without jarjar
+    -->
+    <guice.with.jarjar>true</guice.with.jarjar>
+    <!--
+     | Use "-Dguice.with.no_aop=false" to skip the no-AOP variant
+    -->
+    <guice.with.no_aop>true</guice.with.no_aop>
+  </properties>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <!--
+     | Run tests with TestNG
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
+      <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
+      <version>5.11</version>
+      <classifier>jdk15</classifier>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+
+  <build>
+    <!--
+     | Ant-style directories
+    -->
+    <sourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src</sourceDirectory>
+    <resources>
+      <resource>
+        <filtering>false</filtering>
+        <directory>${project.basedir}/src</directory>
+        <excludes>
+          <exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
+        </excludes>
+      </resource>
+    </resources>
+    <testSourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/test</testSourceDirectory>
+    <testResources>
+      <testResource>
+        <filtering>false</filtering>
+        <directory>${project.basedir}/test</directory>
+        <excludes>
+          <exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
+        </excludes>
+      </testResource>
+    </testResources>
+    <pluginManagement>
+      <plugins>
+        <!--
+         | Standard LICENSE and NOTICE files
+        -->
+        <plugin>
+          <artifactId>maven-remote-resources-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>1.1</version>
+          <executions>
+            <execution>
+              <goals>
+                <goal>process</goal>
+              </goals>
+              <configuration>
+                <resourceBundles>
+                  <resourceBundle>org.apache:apache-jar-resource-bundle:1.4</resourceBundle>
+                </resourceBundles>
+              </configuration>
+            </execution>
+          </executions>
+        </plugin>
+        <!--
+         | Make sure we only use Java5 methods
+        -->
+        <plugin>
+          <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.3.2</version>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+          <artifactId>animal-sniffer-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>1.6</version>
+          <configuration>
+            <signature>
+              <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo.signature</groupId>
+              <artifactId>java15</artifactId>
+              <version>1.0</version>
+            </signature>
+          </configuration>
+          <executions>
+            <execution>
+              <id>check-java-1.5-compat</id>
+              <phase>process-classes</phase>
+              <goals>
+                <goal>check</goal>
+              </goals>
+            </execution>
+          </executions>
+        </plugin>
+        <!--
+         | Shared JarJar configuration
+        -->
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>jarjar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>1.3</version>
+          <configuration>
+            <rules>
+              <rule>
+                <pattern>net.sf.cglib.*</pattern>
+                <result>com.google.inject.internal.cglib.$@1</result>
+              </rule>
+              <rule>
+                <pattern>net.sf.cglib.**.*</pattern>
+                <result>com.google.inject.internal.cglib.@1.$@2</result>
+              </rule>
+              <rule>
+                <pattern>org.objectweb.asm.*</pattern>
+                <result>com.google.inject.internal.asm.$@1</result>
+              </rule>
+              <rule>
+                <pattern>org.objectweb.asm.**.*</pattern>
+                <result>com.google.inject.internal.asm.@1.$@2</result>
+              </rule>
+              <rule>
+                <pattern>com.google.inject.internal.util.*</pattern>
+                <result>com.google.inject.internal.util.$@1</result>
+              </rule>
+              <rule>
+                <pattern>com.google.inject.internal.util.**.*</pattern>
+                <result>com.google.inject.internal.util.@1.$@2</result>
+              </rule>
+              <keep>
+                <pattern>com.google.inject.**</pattern>
+              </keep>
+              <keep>
+                <pattern>com.googlecode.**</pattern>
+              </keep>
+            </rules>
+          </configuration>
+          <!--
+           | JarJar all classes before running tests
+          -->
+          <executions>
+            <execution>
+              <id>jarjar-classes</id>
+              <phase>process-test-classes</phase>
+              <goals>
+                <goal>jarjar</goal>
+              </goals>
+              <configuration>
+                <input>{classes}</input>
+              </configuration>
+            </execution>
+            <execution>
+              <id>jarjar-test-classes</id>
+              <phase>process-test-classes</phase>
+              <goals>
+                <goal>jarjar</goal>
+              </goals>
+              <configuration>
+                <input>{test-classes}</input>
+              </configuration>
+            </execution>
+          </executions>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.5</version>
+          <configuration>
+            <redirectTestOutputToFile>true</redirectTestOutputToFile>
+          </configuration>
+        </plugin>
+        <!--
+         | Shared OSGi manifest configuration
+        -->
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.1.0</version>
+          <configuration>
+            <instructions>
+              <module>com.google.inject</module>
+              <_include>-${project.basedir}/build.properties</_include>
+              <Bundle-Copyright>Copyright (C) 2006 Google Inc.</Bundle-Copyright>
+              <Bundle-DocURL>http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/</Bundle-DocURL>
+              <Bundle-Name>${project.artifactId}</Bundle-Name>
+              <Bundle-SymbolicName>$(module)</Bundle-SymbolicName>
+              <Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment>
+                J2SE-1.5,JavaSE-1.6
+              </Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment>
+              <Import-Package>!com.google.inject.*,*</Import-Package>
+              <_exportcontents>!*.internal.*,$(module).*;version=${guice.api.version}</_exportcontents>
+              <_versionpolicy>[$(version;==;$(@)),$(version;+;$(@)))</_versionpolicy>
+              <_nouses>true</_nouses>
+              <_removeheaders>
+                Embed-Dependency,Embed-Transitive,
+                Built-By,Tool,Created-By,Build-Jdk,
+                Originally-Created-By,Archiver-Version,
+                Include-Resource,Private-Package,
+                Ignore-Package,Bnd-LastModified
+              </_removeheaders>
+            </instructions>
+          </configuration>
+          <executions>
+            <execution>
+              <phase>prepare-package</phase>
+              <goals>
+                <goal>manifest</goal>
+              </goals>
+            </execution>
+          </executions>
+        </plugin>
+        <!--
+         | Package OSGi manifest in final JAR, also create a JAR of the test classes
+        -->
+        <plugin>
+          <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.3.1</version>
+          <configuration>
+            <archive>
+              <manifestFile>${project.build.outputDirectory}/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</manifestFile>
+              <!--  Exclude to mirror ant build -->
+     		  <addMavenDescriptor>false</addMavenDescriptor>
+            </archive>
+          </configuration>
+          <executions>
+            <execution>
+              <phase>package</phase>
+              <goals>
+                <goal>test-jar</goal>
+              </goals>
+            </execution>
+          </executions>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.7</version>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.1.2</version>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>1.1</version>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.1</version>
+          <configuration>
+            <autoVersionSubmodules>true</autoVersionSubmodules>
+          </configuration>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.5</version>
+        </plugin>
+      </plugins>
+    </pluginManagement>
+  </build>
+
+  <profiles>
+    <profile>
+      <!--
+       | Deployment profile for the Sonatype Grid
+      -->
+      <id>sonatype-grid</id>
+      <properties>
+        <forgeReleaseId>forge-releases</forgeReleaseId>
+        <forgeReleaseUrl>http://repository.sonatype.org:8081/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2</forgeReleaseUrl>
+        <forgeSnapshotId>forge-snapshots</forgeSnapshotId>
+        <forgeSnapshotUrl>http://repository.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</forgeSnapshotUrl>
+      </properties>
+      <distributionManagement>
+        <repository>
+          <id>${forgeReleaseId}</id>
+          <url>${forgeReleaseUrl}</url>
+        </repository>
+        <snapshotRepository>
+          <id>${forgeSnapshotId}</id>
+          <url>${forgeSnapshotUrl}</url>
+        </snapshotRepository>
+      </distributionManagement>
+    </profile>
+  </profiles>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/src/test/resources/maven/com/google/inject/guice/2.0/guice-2.0.pom b/src/test/resources/maven/com/google/inject/guice/2.0/guice-2.0.pom
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9f018e84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/maven/com/google/inject/guice/2.0/guice-2.0.pom
@@ -0,0 +1,240 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<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>
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>com.google.inject</groupId>
+    <artifactId>guice-parent</artifactId>
+    <version>2.0</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <artifactId>guice</artifactId>
+
+  <name>Google Guice - Core Library</name>
+
+  <properties>
+    <cglib.version>2.2.1-v20090111</cglib.version>
+  </properties>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
+      <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
+      <version>1</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>aopalliance</groupId>
+      <artifactId>aopalliance</artifactId>
+      <version>1.0</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <!--
+     | Replace with official CGLIB artifact when it's released
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.sonatype.sisu.inject</groupId>
+      <artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
+      <version>${cglib.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
+      <artifactId>javax.inject-tck</artifactId>
+      <version>1</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
+      <version>3.0.5.RELEASE</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>biz.aQute</groupId>
+      <artifactId>bnd</artifactId>
+      <version>0.0.384</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
+      <artifactId>org.apache.felix.framework</artifactId>
+      <version>3.0.5</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <!--
+       | Add standard LICENSE and NOTICE files
+      -->
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-remote-resources-plugin</artifactId>
+      </plugin>
+      <!--
+       | Enable Java5 conformance checks
+      -->
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+        <artifactId>animal-sniffer-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <!--
+           | Temporarily excluded tests
+          -->
+          <excludes>
+            <exclude>**/OSGiContainerTest*</exclude>
+            <exclude>**/ScopesTest*</exclude>
+            <exclude>**/TypeConversionTest*</exclude>
+          </excludes>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <!--
+       | Add OSGi manifest
+      -->
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
+      </plugin>
+      <!--
+       | Remove duplicate jarjar'd LICENSE and NOTICE
+      -->
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <excludes>
+            <exclude>LICENSE</exclude>
+            <exclude>NOTICE</exclude>
+          </excludes>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+
+  <profiles>
+    <profile>
+      <!--
+       | No-AOP profile: repeat the build lifecycle with munged no-AOP source
+      -->
+      <id>guice.with.no_aop</id>
+      <activation>
+        <property>
+          <name>guice.with.no_aop</name>
+          <value>!false</value>
+        </property>
+      </activation>
+      <build>
+        <plugins>
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>munge-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>1.0</version>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <phase>prepare-package</phase>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>munge-fork</goal>
+                </goals>
+                <configuration>
+                  <symbols>NO_AOP</symbols>
+                  <excludes>
+                    **/InterceptorBinding.java,
+                    **/InterceptorBindingProcessor.java,
+                    **/InterceptorStackCallback.java,
+                    **/LineNumbers.java,
+                    **/MethodAspect.java,
+                    **/ProxyFactory.java,
+                    **/BytecodeGenTest.java,
+                    **/IntegrationTest.java,
+                    **/MethodInterceptionTest.java,
+                    **/ProxyFactoryTest.java
+                  </excludes>
+                </configuration>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+          <!--
+           | Package the no-AOP build with its own OSGi manifest and attach using "no_aop" classifier
+          -->
+          <plugin>
+            <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <id>no_aop</id>
+                <phase>package</phase>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>jar</goal>
+                </goals>
+                <configuration>
+                  <classesDirectory>${project.build.directory}/munged/classes</classesDirectory>
+                  <classifier>no_aop</classifier>
+                  <archive>
+                    <manifestFile>${project.build.directory}/munged/classes/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</manifestFile>
+                  </archive>
+                </configuration>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+      </build>
+    </profile>
+    <profile>
+      <!--
+       | JarJar build profile: re-package ASM and CGLIB classes under the Guice namespace
+      -->
+      <id>guice.with.jarjar</id>
+      <activation>
+        <property>
+          <name>guice.with.jarjar</name>
+          <value>!false</value>
+        </property>
+      </activation>
+      <dependencies>
+        <!--
+         | Mark as optional: embedded by JarJar
+        -->
+        <dependency>
+          <groupId>org.sonatype.sisu.inject</groupId>
+          <artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
+          <version>${cglib.version}</version>
+          <optional>true</optional>
+        </dependency>
+      </dependencies>
+      <build>
+        <plugins>
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jarjar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+            <configuration>
+              <includes>
+                <include>*:asm</include>
+                <include>*:cglib</include>
+              </includes>
+            </configuration>
+          </plugin>
+          <plugin>
+            <!--
+             | Package the original non-JarJar'd classes so extensions can compile against them
+            -->
+            <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <id>no_deps</id>
+                <phase>package</phase>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>jar</goal>
+                </goals>
+                <configuration>
+                  <classesDirectory>${project.build.directory}/original-classes</classesDirectory>
+                  <classifier>no_deps</classifier>
+                </configuration>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+      </build>
+    </profile>
+  </profiles>
+
+</project>