diff --git a/dep1/dub.json b/dep1/dub.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b448281
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dep1/dub.json
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+{
+    "name": "dep1",
+
+    "targetType": "sourceLibrary",
+
+    "dependencies": {
+        "std-experimental-xml": ">=0.1.7 <0.2.0",
+        "unit-threaded:assertions": ">=0.8.0 <0.10.0"
+    }
+}
diff --git a/dep1/src/dep1.d b/dep1/src/dep1.d
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+++ b/dep1/src/dep1.d
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+module dep1;
+
+string foo ()
+{
+    return "foo";
+}
diff --git a/dep2/dub.json b/dep2/dub.json
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index 0000000..e6c5bd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dep2/dub.json
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+    "name": "dep2",
+    "targetType": "sourceLibrary"
+}
diff --git a/dep2/src/dep1.d b/dep2/src/dep1.d
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index 0000000..888cdcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dep2/src/dep1.d
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+module dep1;
+
+string foo ()
+{
+    return "foo";
+}
diff --git a/dub.json b/dub.json
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index 0000000..6252119
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dub.json
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+{
+    "name": "vibe-deps-failure",
+    "authors": ["Joseph Wakeling"],
+    "description": "Simple example of DUB dependency resolution failure",
+
+    "dependencies": {
+        "dep1": { "path": "dep1" },
+        "dep2": { "path": "dep2" },
+        "std_data_json": ">=0.18.3 <0.19.0",
+        "pyd": ">=0.10.5 <0.11.0",
+        "vibe-core": ">=1.6.0 <2.0.0",
+        "vibe-d:redis": ">=0.8.4 <0.9.0",
+        "vibe-d:tls": ">=0.8.4 <0.9.0"
+    },
+    "subConfigurations": {
+        "pyd": "python36",
+        "vibe-d:tls": "openssl-1.1"
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/app.d b/src/app.d
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+++ b/src/app.d
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+void main ()
+{
+    import dep1 : foo;
+    import std.stdio : writefln;
+    writefln!"Hello, I'm just a stub for %s"(foo());
+}