DependencyTrack / DependencyTrack/dependency-track

Split direct dependency check from Version Distance Evaluator

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Description

### Current Behavior

Currently the Version Distance Policy Evaluator is able to check for version distance, but will only fire if the package it is assessing is a direct dependency of the object the policy is applying to.

### Proposed Behavior

The test for a package being a direct dependency should probably be in it's own evaluator.

It's useful to know if, in an aggregated bom or in a project there's packages anywhere in the dependency tree that do not meet the policy thresholds (regardless of if they are direct).

An example of this is building a policy where you want the distance to be equal to 0.0.0.0, but the age at some amount of time (i.e. the latest package version is not updated in a few years).

The existing behaviour could still be used by using an ALL condition with the two policies.

### Checklist

- [X] I have read and understand the [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/DependencyTrack/dependency-track/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#filing-issues)
- [X] I have checked the [existing issues](https://github.com/DependencyTrack/dependency-track/issues) for whether this enhancement was already requested

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