Configuration inheritance and composition with kotlin dsl

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I am trying to construct a configuration based on the implementation configuration.
My goal is to ‘implement’ a number of dependencies which I want to include in an uberjar but suppress all of their transitive dependencies.
From the manual

val uberJarImplementation by configurations.creating {
      extendsFrom(configurations.implementation.get())
}
dependencies {
    testImplementation("junit:junit:4.12")
    uberJarImplementation("org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.5.5")
}

This results in compilation errors about packages and symbols from the depencency not being found.
Changing to the following clears up the problem

val uberJarImlementation by configurations.creating {
      extendsFrom(configurations.implementation.get())
}
dependencies {
    testImplementation("junit:junit:4.12")
    implementation("org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.5.5")
    uberJarImplementation("org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.5.5")
}

The behavior is as expected when using groovy as the gradle scripting language.

Where is the error?

I have made a simple hello world style project that illustrates the issue.
It does this by depending on the JCommander command line processor.
[[

    git clone https://github.com/phreed/kotlin-gradle-demo
    cd kotlin-gradle-demo
    ./gradlew run

]] will illustrate the issue.

The repository also has a couple of branches that seem to work as expected.
However I am not convinced they are correct.