Update ethers dependencies to ^6 ?

[thelinuxlich]

The v5 ethers dependencies on this project creates a lot of security alerts on things like Dependabot.

[HMSagar2701]

Hi @thelinuxlich , Can I work on this issue

[thelinuxlich]

Sure why not?

[HMSagar2701]

Is it fine to use @ethersproject/providers@6.0.0-beta.1, or should we wait for a stable release?
Let me know if you want further adjustments!

[MCarlomagno]

Hi @thelinuxlich & @HMSagar2701 . We already support ethers v6 in our relayers and other packages, see ethers v6 example.

Although we understand it's a deprecated package, we still keep backwards compatibility with ethers v5 because many of our users and clients still depend it

[thelinuxlich]

Wouldn't it be possible to split the package supporting ethers v5 into a separate legacy one?

[thelinuxlich]

For example, on one of my projects, these elliptic alerts are all because of that dependency: