[MSHARED-1204] Consider special casing slf4j-simple et al

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: maven-dependency-analyzer
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Elliotte Rusty Harold
• Created: 16/Mar/23 11:31
• Updated: 31/Mar/23 22:39

Description

slf4j-simple is sometimes added to classpaths to shut up annoying warnings from SLF4J at run and test time, even though it isn't absolutely required. Can we do better with our analysis of the common case and similar ones, rather than reporting it as declared but unused?

```
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
```