OSGi version range for Guava imports are too narrow

[guw]

The OSGi version imports for Guava are very narrow. For example, they tightly couple the utils bundle to just one particular Guava release and prevent it from running with latests.

I would recommend setting only a minimum version for Guava but no upper bound.

It could be achieved by adding the following attribute to util_bundle:

    bundle_additional_imports = ["com.google.common.*;version=\"${@}\""],

[laeubi]

I would recommend setting only a minimum version for Guava but no upper bound.

This is really bad, please see https://docs.osgi.org/whitepaper/semantic-versioning/ for proper choice of version bounds. An unbounded import is the best way to wait for bad things to happen.

In general I think guava is one of the libraries that are just to badly shaped (combined with its unclear versioning / compatibility rules) to be used as a real dependency and if one really aims for best interoperability conditional package might be a better choice here: https://bnd.bndtools.org/instructions/conditionalpackage.html