Clean up app/build.gradle (#1421)

* Remove packaging resources exclusion and configurations

* Update mikepenz-aboutLibraries to 12.1.0-rc03 and configure resource merging for LICENSE files

Author: rfc2822

app/build.gradle.kts

@@ -89,16 +89,17 @@ android {
         disable += arrayOf("GoogleAppIndexingWarning", "ImpliedQuantity", "MissingQuantity", "MissingTranslation", "ExtraTranslation", "RtlEnabled", "RtlHardcoded", "Typos")
     }
 
+    androidResources {
+        generateLocaleConfig = true
+    }
+
     packaging {
         resources {
-            excludes += arrayOf("META-INF/*.md")
+            // multiple (test) dependencies have LICENSE files at same location
+            merges += arrayOf("META-INF/LICENSE*")
         }
     }
 
-    androidResources {
-        generateLocaleConfig = true
-    }
-
     @Suppress("UnstableApiUsage")
     testOptions {
         managedDevices {
@@ -118,20 +119,10 @@ ksp {
 }
 
 aboutLibraries {
+    // exclude timestamps for reproducible builds [https://github.com/bitfireAT/davx5-ose/issues/994]
     excludeFields = arrayOf("generated")
 }
 
-configurations {
-    configureEach {
-        // exclude modules which are in conflict with system libraries
-        exclude(module="commons-logging")
-        exclude(group="org.json", module="json")
-
-        // Groovy requires SDK 26+, and it's not required, so exclude it
-        exclude(group="org.codehaus.groovy")
-    }
-}
-
 dependencies {
     // core
     implementation(libs.kotlin.stdlib)

gradle/libs.versions.toml

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ kotlin = "2.1.20"
 kotlinx-coroutines = "1.10.2"
 # see https://github.com/google/ksp/releases for version numbers
 ksp = "2.1.20-2.0.0"
-mikepenz-aboutLibraries = "12.1.0-rc02"
+mikepenz-aboutLibraries = "12.1.0-rc03"
 nsk90-kstatemachine = "0.33.0"
 mockk = "1.14.0"
 okhttp = "4.12.0"