diff --git a/junit-vintage-engine/src/module/org.junit.vintage.engine/module-info.java b/junit-vintage-engine/src/module/org.junit.vintage.engine/module-info.java
index cfc7b9a87f8..7fcb19e038e 100644
--- a/junit-vintage-engine/src/module/org.junit.vintage.engine/module-info.java
+++ b/junit-vintage-engine/src/module/org.junit.vintage.engine/module-info.java
@@ -8,10 +8,16 @@
  * https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v20.html
  */
 
+/**
+ * JUnit Vintage provides a {@linkplain TestEngine} for running JUnit 3 and 4 based tests on the platform.
+ *
+ * @moduleGraph
+ * @since 5.5.0
+ */
 module org.junit.vintage.engine {
-	requires transitive junit; // 4
-	requires transitive org.apiguardian.api;
-	requires transitive org.junit.platform.engine;
+	requires junit; // 4
+	requires org.apiguardian.api;
+	requires org.junit.platform.engine;
 
 	provides org.junit.platform.engine.TestEngine
 			with org.junit.vintage.engine.VintageTestEngine;
diff --git a/platform-tooling-support-tests/projects/jar-describe-module/junit-vintage-engine.expected.txt b/platform-tooling-support-tests/projects/jar-describe-module/junit-vintage-engine.expected.txt
index 759308d8da0..2f60914ad23 100644
--- a/platform-tooling-support-tests/projects/jar-describe-module/junit-vintage-engine.expected.txt
+++ b/platform-tooling-support-tests/projects/jar-describe-module/junit-vintage-engine.expected.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 org.junit.vintage.engine@${vintageVersion} jar:file:.+junit-vintage-engine/build/libs/junit-vintage-engine-${jupiterVersion}.jar/!module-info.class
 requires java.base mandated
-requires junit transitive
-requires org.apiguardian.api transitive
-requires org.junit.platform.engine transitive
+requires junit
+requires org.apiguardian.api
+requires org.junit.platform.engine
 provides org.junit.platform.engine.TestEngine with org.junit.vintage.engine.VintageTestEngine
 contains org.junit.vintage.engine
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