From 09cada9a15f049ed306a821425a0fc8dfc6b4453 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mattie Fu <mattiefu@google.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 13:24:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] deps: clean up dependency exclusion

---
 google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
index 9f1829889b..17082ee84d 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
@@ -211,13 +211,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
       <artifactId>grpc-opentelemetry</artifactId>
-      <!-- TODO: remove this after next release (2.72.0). This is necessary to workaround a late downgrade of otel in cloud-shared-deps -->
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>io.opentelemetry</groupId>
-          <artifactId>opentelemetry-api</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.threeten</groupId>