> > I propose we remove commons-codec on trunk. > The only usage I found was from CASSANDRA-12790 - Support InfluxDb metrics reporter configuration, which relied on commons-codec and metrics-reporter-config, which will be removed as part of CASSANDRA-18743. > The only question is whether we can remove those two dependencies on trunk, considering it is 5.1, or do we need to wait until 6.0.
Dependencies are not an API (where they're not exposed/leaked), +1 on removing it in 5.0 (when 18743 lands). If users/operators need it back on the classpath it is for reasons outside of our API concerns.
