[receiver/lightprometheus] Deprecate receiver (#6949)

* [receiver/lightprometheus] Deprecate receiver

* fix changelog - add issue

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Co-authored-by: Paulo Janotti <[email protected]>

Author: crobert-1

.chloggen/deprecate_light_prom.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: deprecation
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. crosslink)
+component: receiver/lightprometheus
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: The `lightprometheus` receiver has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
+
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [6949]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext: |
+  Please use the [Prometheus](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/prometheusreceiver) or
+  [Simple Prometheus](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/simpleprometheusreceiver) receiver instead.

internal/receiver/lightprometheusreceiver/README.md

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 # Light Prometheus Receiver
 
-| Status                   |               |
-| ------------------------ |---------------|
-| Stability                | [development] |
-| Supported pipeline types | metrics       |
-| Distributions            | splunk        |
+| Status                   |              |
+| ------------------------ |--------------|
+| Stability                | [deprecated] |
+| Supported pipeline types | metrics      |
+| Distributions            | splunk       |
 
-[development]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#development
+[deprecated]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/docs/component-stability.md#deprecated
+
+:warning: Please use the [Prometheus](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/prometheusreceiver) or [Simple Prometheus](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/simpleprometheusreceiver) receiver instead.
 
 ## Overview
 
@@ -15,8 +17,6 @@ convert them to OTLP metrics. It is intended to be used as a replacement for the
 Receiver](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/simpleprometheusreceiver)
 as it is more efficient and has a smaller memory footprint.
 
-The receiver is under active development which means that configuration interface can change.
-
 ## Configuration
 
 The following settings are required:

internal/receiver/lightprometheusreceiver/factory.go

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ func NewFactory() receiver.Factory {
 	return receiver.NewFactory(
 		component.MustNewType(typeStr),
 		createDefaultConfig,
-		receiver.WithMetrics(createMetricsReceiver, component.StabilityLevelDevelopment),
+		receiver.WithMetrics(createMetricsReceiver, component.StabilityLevelDeprecated),
 	)
 }