Support maven optional

[piotrwielgolaski-tomtom]

What would you like Renovate to be able to do?

I would like to disable update of optional dependency
https://www.baeldung.com/maven-optional-dependency
I dont see any way to filter by this

If you have any ideas on how this should be implemented, please tell us here.

Ad support for reading also optional similarly as for scope in
https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/blob/main/lib/modules/manager/maven/extract.ts#L81
When optional is set and has value true, depType can be set as optional

Is this a feature you are interested in implementing yourself?

Yes

[rarkins]

Hi, reproduction isn't optional if you're implementing it yourself

[github-actions]

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[piotrwielgolaski-tomtom]

Here is reproducer for this issue https://github.com/piotrwielgolaski-tomtom/renovate-issue-15544

[renovate-release]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 32.71.0 🎉

The release is available on:

• GitHub release
• 32.71.0

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