How to set the dependency type from project dependencies in generated pom.xml?

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I’m having a gradle project that create artifacts that should be consumed by a maven project. Some of the dependencies that I would like to describe in the pom.xml created from the maven-publish plugin is not jars, and needs to have the correct so the maven project can download the correct artifact.

How is the “gradle way” to do this. One solution I came up with was to modify the pom in the pom.withXml block, but I’m hoping there is a better way.
/Hazze

An example project that shows the issue en alternative solution:
settings.gradle:

rootProject.name = 'testproject'
include 'p1'
include 'p2'

build.gradle:

allprojects {
 group = 'testproject'
 version = '1.0'
 repositories {
   jcenter()
  }
}

p1/build.gradle:

plugins {
    id 'base'
    id 'maven-publish'
}
def rpmFile = file("$buildDir/rpms/my-package.rpm")
def rpmArtifact = artifacts.add('archives', rpmFile) {
    type 'rpm'
    builtBy 'rpm'
}
task rpm() {
    outputs.file rpmFile
    doLast {
        rpmFile << 'file contents'
    }
}
publishing {
    publications {
        maven(MavenPublication) {
            artifact rpmArtifact
        }
    }
}

p2/build.gradle:

plugins {
  id 'java-library'
  id 'maven-publish'
}

dependencies {
  implementation project(path:':p1', configuration:'archives')
  //A maven dependency works and generates the correct <type> element in the produced pom.
  implementation 'org.sonarsource.sonarqube:sonar-application:7.9.1@zip'
}

publishing {
  publications {
      mavenJava(MavenPublication) {
          from components.java

          pom.packaging 'pom'
          //Ugly workaround to set the <type> element.
          pom.withXml {
              asNode().dependencies.'*'.each() {
                  if( it.groupId.text() == group && it.artifactId.text() == 'p1' ) {
                      it.appendNode('type','rpm')
                  }
              }
          }
      }
   }
}