I had to manually install the solr 1.2.0 jar file in my maven repository using

 mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.apache.solr -DartifactId=solr -Dversion=1.2.0 -Dfile=/tmp/WEB-INF/lib/apache-solr-1.2.0.jar -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true