Enhancement: limit report to updates actionable in the context of pom.xml

[rmie]

I found nothing similar in closed issues, if you consider this a duplicate to a previous issue, feel free to close it.

Motivation: I'm trying to limit the reports down to a point that all listed dependencies, plugins, parent and properties version are specified in the analyzed pom.xml. Basically all inherited (upstream) issues should be ignored. I want to make it as simple and fast as possible to fix such issues without the need to reason about if a reported issue is inherited from upstream.

Example: two projects, from different reactors

• parent/pom.xml uses spring-boot-starter-parent:3.3.1, but 3.3.3 is latest version
• service/pom.xml uses parent/pom.xml at latest version

report for

• parent/pom.xml
  • MUST list outdated parent
  • MUST NOT list e.g. outdated plugins, dependencies that are inherited from spring-boot-starter-parent
• service/pom.xml
  • MUST NOT list e.g. outdated parent, plugins etc. inherited from parent/pom.xml

Possible Solutions:

• preferred, additional flag e.g. ignoreInherited to control this behavior
• alternative, mark "inherited" issues in reports (and possibly xml) as such