diff --git a/scripts/release/deploy_staging_jars.sh b/scripts/release/deploy_staging_jars.sh
index b02a7d4d572fb..885c25f20fa06 100755
--- a/scripts/release/deploy_staging_jars.sh
+++ b/scripts/release/deploy_staging_jars.sh
@@ -54,5 +54,5 @@ cd ..
 
 echo "Deploying to repository.apache.org with scala version ${SCALA_VERSION}"
 
-COMMON_OPTIONS="-Pscala-${SCALA_VERSION} -Prelease -DskipTests -DretryFailedDeploymentCount=10 -DdeployArtifacts=true"
+COMMON_OPTIONS="-Dscala-${SCALA_VERSION} -Prelease -DskipTests -DretryFailedDeploymentCount=10 -DdeployArtifacts=true"
 $MVN clean deploy $COMMON_OPTIONS