Upgrading major versions of dependencies should require a major version bump

[cmcewen]

Ran into some issues with your Firebase version bump (running on a React Native app), which broke our build. I believe that if you update any dependency with a major version change, that should also require a major version change on your part

[kanclalg]

I also got some headache searching what broke our build today. I'm using nativescript and this update (analytics-android-integration-firebase v1.3.0) causes dependency conflicts with these nativescript plugins: nativescript-google-maps-sdk v2.7.0, nativescript-plugin-firebase v9.0.3.

I got few errors:

In project 'app' a resolved Google Play services library dependency depends on another at an exact version (e.g. "[18.0.
  0]", but isn't being resolved to that version. Behavior exhibited by the library will be unknown.
  
  Dependency failing: com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:18.0.0 -> com.google.firebase:firebase-iid@[18.0.0], but fire
  base-iid version was 19.0.0.

and

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugManifest'.
> Manifest merger failed : Attribute application@appComponentFactory value=(android.support.v4.app.CoreComponentFactory) from [com.android.support:support-compat:28.0.0] AndroidManifest.xml:22:18-91
        is also present at [androidx.core:core:1.0.0] AndroidManifest.xml:22:18-86 value=(androidx.core.app.CoreComponentFactory).
        Suggestion: add 'tools:replace="android:appComponentFactory"' to <application> element at AndroidManifest.xml:22:2-63:16 to override.

didn't do much digging, just downgraded the plugin to v1.2.0.
Anyway, I agree with @cmcewen that it should be major version release.

[sampsonjoliver]

Yep, I consume this plugin via the @segment/analytics-react-native-firebase plugin.

Unfortunately the @segment/analytics-react-native-firebase team don't reference any specific version of this Android plugin, and thus always acquire the latest regardless. This is blocking our application from building altogether for Android, with either a huge upgrade pathway to solve, or I'll just be removing the @segment/analytics-react-native-firebase integration until I can resolve this nightmare.