Spending 2 minutes with 404 searching for non-existent jar for aar packaging type (such as grpc-cronet)

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the packaging is an aar and not a jar

2026-04-16T07:02:42.9443527Z updater | 2026/04/16 07:02:42 INFO <job_1325771740> Checking if io.grpc:grpc-cronet 1.80.0 needs updating
2026-04-16T07:02:43.1154560Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:02:43 [614] GET https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/org/apache/apache/37/apache-37.pom
2026-04-16T07:02:43.1155445Z 2026/04/16 07:02:43 [614] 200 https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/org/apache/apache/37/apache-37.pom (cached)
2026-04-16T07:02:43.2294414Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:02:43 [616] GET https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/maven-metadata.xml
2026-04-16T07:02:43.2961873Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:02:43 [616] 200 https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/maven-metadata.xml
2026-04-16T07:02:43.4003895Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:02:43 [618] GET https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet
2026-04-16T07:02:43.5354316Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:02:43 [618] 302 https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet
2026-04-16T07:02:43.6294273Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:02:43 [620] GET https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/
2026-04-16T07:02:43.6732615Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:02:43 [620] 200 https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/
2026-04-16T07:02:43.7894147Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:02:43 [622] HEAD https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.80.0/grpc-cronet-1.80.0.jar
2026-04-16T07:02:43.9581186Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:02:43 [622] 404 https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.80.0/grpc-cronet-1.80.0.jar
2026-04-16T07:02:44.0544188Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:02:44 [624] HEAD https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.79.0/grpc-cronet-1.79.0.jar
2026-04-16T07:02:44.2035896Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:02:44 [624] 404 https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.79.0/grpc-cronet-1.79.0.jar

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all exisitng versions are listed... cropped so that it fits in the issue
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2026-04-16T07:04:41.0054024Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:04:41 [170] HEAD https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.27.0/grpc-cronet-1.27.0.jar
2026-04-16T07:04:41.0055415Z 2026/04/16 07:04:41 [170] 404 https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.27.0/grpc-cronet-1.27.0.jar (cached)
2026-04-16T07:04:41.0994431Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:04:41 [172] HEAD https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.26.1/grpc-cronet-1.26.1.jar
2026-04-16T07:04:41.0995717Z 2026/04/16 07:04:41 [172] 404 https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.26.1/grpc-cronet-1.26.1.jar (cached)
2026-04-16T07:04:41.1993930Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:04:41 [174] HEAD https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.26.0/grpc-cronet-1.26.0.jar
2026-04-16T07:04:41.1995496Z 2026/04/16 07:04:41 [174] 404 https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.26.0/grpc-cronet-1.26.0.jar (cached)
2026-04-16T07:04:41.2935284Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:04:41 [176] HEAD https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.25.0/grpc-cronet-1.25.0.jar
2026-04-16T07:04:41.2936380Z 2026/04/16 07:04:41 [176] 404 https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.25.0/grpc-cronet-1.25.0.jar (cached)
2026-04-16T07:04:41.3934012Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:04:41 [178] HEAD https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.24.2/grpc-cronet-1.24.2.jar
2026-04-16T07:04:41.3935095Z 2026/04/16 07:04:41 [178] 404 https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.24.2/grpc-cronet-1.24.2.jar (cached)
2026-04-16T07:04:41.4864757Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:04:41 [180] HEAD https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.24.1/grpc-cronet-1.24.1.jar
2026-04-16T07:04:41.4866466Z 2026/04/16 07:04:41 [180] 404 https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.24.1/grpc-cronet-1.24.1.jar (cached)
2026-04-16T07:04:41.5885289Z   proxy | 2026/04/16 07:04:41 [182] HEAD https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.24.0/grpc-cronet-1.24.0.jar
2026-04-16T07:04:41.5886486Z 2026/04/16 07:04:41 [182] 404 https://repo1.maven.org:443/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-cronet/1.24.0/grpc-cronet-1.24.0.jar (cached)
2026-04-16T07:04:41.5959756Z updater | 2026/04/16 07:04:41 INFO <job_1325771740> Requirements to unlock update_not_possible
2026-04-16T07:04:41.5960672Z 2026/04/16 07:04:41 INFO <job_1325771740> Requirements update strategy 
2026-04-16T07:04:41.5961468Z 2026/04/16 07:04:41 INFO <job_1325771740> No update possible for io.grpc:grpc-cronet 1.80.0

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I expect to avoid dependabot to search for non-existent .jar (but potentially for aar file?) when the packaging type is aar

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[apupier]

examples of aar packaging artifacts for which we hit the issue:
io.grpc:grpc-cronet
io.grpc:grpc-android
io.grpc:grpc-binder