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Update gaxios to 7.0.0 in googleapis-common

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
nodejs, typescript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Locate the googleapis-common package and inspect its dependency declaration and any associated lockfile or tests. Confirm how gaxios is currently pinned, update it to 7.0.0, and run the package's existing checks to verify the dependency resolves without the release-candidate dependency.

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Description

library: google-cloud-node-core size: s type: process

googleapis-common is pointing at 7.0.0-rc4, which pulls in rimraf. Can we upgrade to 7.0.0?

Dominant language
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