Fix Apache HttpClient telemetry collection

[jaydeluca]

Related to #13468

For the past week or so, the nightly metadata update job has been trying to remove the telemetry for two modules:

• apache-httpclient:apache-httpclient-4.3
• apache-httpclient:apache-httpclient-5.2

See https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/pull/14765/files

I have not been able to get to the bottom of why this is happening. It seems from looking at github action logs that it is not running the tests at all for some reason. When trying to debug, I have been able to inconsistently reproduce/fix it on two different computers.

I will implement documenting these modules manually until I can identify a fix.

Things started breaking on September 16, with the first occurrence showing up here:
#14686

Here are the commits that were merged between September 15 and 16th:
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/commits/main/?since=2025-09-15&until=2025-09-16

Found that I have some failing tests that should be failing in CI but aren't...

disabling the nullaway plugin makes things behave as expected
#14810

[jaydeluca]

disabling the nullaway plugin makes things behave as expected
#14810

I believe i've identified the issue as the changed introduced here

Working on a fix