Failure to publish plugins on patch release

[anuraaga]

Got this error when publishing 1.7.2

> Task :publishPlugins FAILED
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
Publishing plugin io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.muzzle-check version 0.8.0

23 actionable tasks: 13 executed, 10 up-to-date
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':publishPlugins'.
> Failed to post to server.
  Server responded with:
  Plugin: 'io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.muzzle-check', version: '0.8.0' exists already. It was created: 2021-10-19 08:05:11.098

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https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/runs/4100436722?check_suite_focus=true

[mateuszrzeszutek]

Wouldn't this be fixed by #4248 for all post 1.8 branches?

[anuraaga]

Yeah I didn't understand what was happening with the patch flow yet when filling this for tracking