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Support Doc Imports
Dart 3.8.0 added Doc Imports which:
enables external elements to be referenced in documentation comments without actually importing them
Currently, dependency_validator doesn't appear to consider these doc imports as usages. So, if a package is imported only in Doc Imports and not in regular imports, dependency_validator will detect it as unused. I think these only need to be declared as a dev_dependency, despite being in lib/.
In practice, it might be rare for packages to have doc comment references to packages that they don't actually depend on.
Hey @Conrad598, thanks for the issue!
Yea, I think that'd be a good update, but unfortunately our team is focused on other things at the moment.
If this is something you're interested in, feel free to create a PR and I'd be happy to review it, otherwise it might be a bit until we can get to this
