Different dependencies for different build profiles

Your groupId, artifactId should be tokenized in your profiles as properties and you can move your dependencies to the generic section.

To quote the Maven documentation on this:

A profile element contains both an optional activation (a profile trigger) and the set of changes to be made to the POM if that profile has been activated. For example, a project built for a test environment may point to a different database than that of the final deployment. Or dependencies may be pulled from different repositories based upon the JDK version used.

(Emphasis is mine)

Just put the dependency for the release profile inside the profile declaration itself and do the same for debug.

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>debug</id>
        …
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>…</dependency>
        </dependencies>
        …
    </profile>
    <profile>
        <id>release</id>
        …
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>…</dependency>
        </dependencies>
        …
    </profile>
</profiles>