Unable to excluse org.clojure/clojure depenedency

[Samy-33]

I have a lein project using lein-tools-deps middleware to resolve deps defined in my project's deps.edn.

While trying to setup clojure-storm, I noticed org.clojure/clojure being added at the top of deps tree even when it's explicitly excluded in lein's top level :exclusions key.

After few hours of debugging I realised that lein-tools-deps is adding this dependency via a middleware. Is there a way to exclude org.clojure/clojure from deps?