False alarm when using firebaseAppDistribution in a convention plugin

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[REQUIRED] Describe your environment

• Android Studio version: Android Studio Otther 2025.2.1 Patch 1
• Firebase Component: Firebase App Distribution
• Component version: 5.2.0

[REQUIRED] Describe the problem

Steps to reproduce:

Implement Firebase 34.6.0 and App Distribution 5.2.0 and configure AppDistributionExtensions in a convention plugin in build-logic.

What happened? How can we make the problem occur? This could be a description, log/console output,
etc.

Android Studio shows a warning below:

Detected use of deprecated firebaseAppDistribution { } block. If you used this block in your root project, switch to firebaseAppDistributionDefault { } instead. If you used this block in a productFlavors or buildTypes, import com.google.firebase.appdistribution.gradle.firebaseAppDistribution to fix this issue.

Relevant Code:

import com.google.firebase.appdistribution.gradle.AppDistributionExtension

configure<AppDistributionExtension> {
   serviceCredentialsFile = "$rootDir/firebase_credentials.json"
   groups = System.getenv(FIREBASE_TESTER_GROUPS)
   releaseNotes = System.getenv(FIREBASE_RELEASE_NOTES)
}

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