Do no longer consider distribution management repos by default

[kwin]

This often leads to errors which break the build. Therefore this feature should be opt-in

This closes #6945

[bjhargrave]

This is a breaking change. Is that really necessary since there is a configuration option to address your issue?

[kwin]

I don't consider this an exceptional issue only on my side. Very often the distribution management URLs are not suitable for consumption. Often it is not even HTTP (but for example SCP:// or a custom transport handler like for https://github.com/maveniverse/njord). I would strongly suggest to have a default configuration which is less prone to errors (even if that means a breaking change).

[chrisrueger]

I have put it on the list potential breaking changes for a future 8.0 release https://github.com/bndtools/bnd/wiki/WIP-Ideas:-bnd-8.0.0-breaking-changes

[kwin]

Maven Docs have been clarified recently in this regard: apache/maven-site#1466

[chrisrueger]

Maven Docs have been clarified recently in this regard: apache/maven-site#1466

Could you elaborate what this clarification in the maven docs means for this PR?
Sorry it might be obvious for a maven user familiar with the topic, but I am not.

[kwin]

That distribution URLs can only be used in edge cases for resolving/downloading. They are primarily thought for uploading!

[chrisrueger]

That distribution URLs can only be used in edge cases for resolving/downloading. They are primarily thought for uploading!

Ok that is my interpretation too based on apache/maven-site#1466

[bjhargrave]

@timothyjward did the initial version of this plugin. So perhaps he can provide counsel on this change.