MINOR: redundant gradle expression is removed

[dejan2609]

Note: this is a #18018 offshoot.

See this comment made by @Goooler: #18018 (comment)

FYI @mumrah, @apoorvmittal10

[apoorvmittal10]

Thanks @dejan2609, can you please confirm the pom and other outputs. If they are same, I ll check them myself too.

[dejan2609]

Testing scenario:

1. create two kafka-clients versions via ./gradlew :clients:publishToMavenLocal -PskipSigning=true

• use kafka trunk and create kafka-clients version 4.1.0-SNAPSHOT
• use this PR (and change version in gradle.properties) in order to create 4.2.0-SNAPSHOT version

2. compare these two versions:

dejan@dejan-HP-ProBook-450-G7:~/kafka$ diff ~/.m2/repository/org/apache/kafka/kafka-clients/4.1.0-SNAPSHOT/kafka-clients-4.1.0-SNAPSHOT.pom ~/.m2/repository/org/apache/kafka/kafka-clients/4.2.0-SNAPSHOT/kafka-clients-4.2.0-SNAPSHOT.pom 
6c6
<   <version>4.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
---
>   <version>4.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

3. test these two versions created above using this helper project: https://github.com/dejan2609/poc-kafka-18142

• change kafka-clients version in build.gradle to 4.1.0-SNAPSHOT and create dependency tree:

dejan@dejan-HP-ProBook-450-G7:~/IdeaProjects/terraform/poc-kafka-18142$ ./gradlew dependencies > 4.1.0.txt 
change `kafka-clients` version to 4.2.0-SNAPSHOT

• change kafka-clients version in build.gradle to 4.2.0-SNAPSHOT and create another dependency tree:

dejan@dejan-HP-ProBook-450-G7:~/IdeaProjects/terraform/poc-kafka-18142$ ./gradlew dependencies > 4.2.0.txt 

• compare two dependency trees:

dejan@dejan-HP-ProBook-450-G7:~/IdeaProjects/poc-kafka-18142$ diff 4.1.0.txt 4.2.0.txt 
12c12
< \--- org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:4.1.0-SNAPSHOT
---
> \--- org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:4.2.0-SNAPSHOT
21c21
< \--- org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:4.1.0-SNAPSHOT (n)
---
> \--- org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:4.2.0-SNAPSHOT (n)
27c27
< \--- org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:4.1.0-SNAPSHOT
---
> \--- org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:4.2.0-SNAPSHOT
43c43
< +--- org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:4.1.0-SNAPSHOT
---
> +--- org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:4.2.0-SNAPSHOT
71c71
< +--- org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:4.1.0-SNAPSHOT
---
> +--- org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:4.2.0-SNAPSHOT
dejan@dejan-HP-ProBook-450-G7:~/IdeaProjects/poc-kafka-18142$

[dejan2609]

I did some testing and it seems that we are good to go.

@apoorvmittal10 and @mumrah: feel free to review (test on your side).

[dejan2609]

Just a reminder for @apoorvmittal10 and @mumrah

[apoorvmittal10]

@dejan2609 Sorry for the delay, I was away for sometime. The PR is on my pending list for review now.

[apoorvmittal10]

LGTM! @dejan2609 Can you please update the branch to latest please.

[dejan2609]

@apoorvmittal10 Changes are rebased onto trunk.