Draft: Investigate Quarkus dependencies

What does this MR do?

Investigating some customer feedback.

What are the relevant issue numbers?

Experimental Gradle Parser Throws Recoverable E... (gitlab-org/gitlab#446145 - closed) • Philip Cunningham • 16.10 • On track

Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

• Changelog entry added
• Documentation created/updated for GitLab EE, if necessary
• Documentation created/updated for this project, if necessary
• Documentation reviewed by technical writer or follow-up review issue created
• Tests added for this feature/bug
• Job definition updated, if necessary
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• Conforms to the code review guidelines
• Conforms to the Go guidelines
• Security reports checked/validated by reviewer

/cc @l.s.andringa1