GoogleCloudPlatform / GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-opensource-java
Avoid unactionable dependency update suggestions
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Description
For example, in the grpc-auth report:
```
https://storage.googleapis.com/cloud-opensource-java-dashboard/dashboard/target/dashboard/io.grpc_grpc-auth_1.15.1.html
```
It makes this recommendation:
```
com.google.guava:guava:20.0 needs to upgrade com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:1.3.9 to 3.0.1
```
But, Guava has already upgraded to 3.0.2: https://github.com/google/guava/blob/95521f78d442084e2d9ebd6e2d096a834caccdad/pom.xml#L220
Basically, if a direct dependency is old (Guava 20.0 is pretty far behind 26.0-android), telling people to update its transitive dependencies is unhelpful.
We can probably call out sources of old transitive dependencies, but as for recommendations, they need to be made with respect to the most recent versions.
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