'explodeCodeSourceDebug' uses this output of task 'generateDebugProto' without declaring an explicit or implicit dependency after Gradle update to 8.0.2

[ivanalvarado]

We're experiencing the following error after updating gradle from 7.6.1 -> 8.0.2

A problem was found with the configuration of task ':my-library:generateDebugProto' (type 'GenerateProtoTask').
  - Gradle detected a problem with the following location: '/path/to/MyProject/my-library/build/generated/source/proto/debug'.
    
    Reason: Task ':my-library:explodeCodeSourceDebug' uses this output of task ':my-library:generateDebugProto' without declaring an explicit or implicit dependency. This can lead to incorrect results being produced, depending on what order the tasks are executed.
    
    Possible solutions:
      1. Declare task ':my-library:generateDebugProto' as an input of ':my-library:explodeCodeSourceDebug'.
      2. Declare an explicit dependency on ':my-library:generateDebugProto' from ':my-library:explodeCodeSourceDebug' using Task#dependsOn.
      3. Declare an explicit dependency on ':my-library:generateDebugProto' from ':my-library:explodeCodeSourceDebug' using Task#mustRunAfter.
    
    Please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/8.0.2/userguide/validation_problems.html#implicit_dependency for more details about this problem.

This appears like a misconfiguration at the plugin level, but not entirely sure.

We've added a workaround by adding the following to the affected module:

afterEvaluate {
    tasks.forEach {task ->
        if (task.name.contains("explodeCodeSourceDebug")) {
            task.dependsOn("generateDebugProto")
        }
        if (task.name.contains("explodeCodeSourceRelease")) {
            task.dependsOn("generateReleaseProto")
        }
    }
}