On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 3:00 AM Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>
> It does make sense for upstream to only use the specific tested versions
> with their bundled binary distribution but when they make it as hard
> requirements into the source distribution too, it means that it's barely
> usable for pip installs (in virtualenvs only, really, to isolate it from
> other software) and probably every OS wanting to package it is going to
> need to patch those away. And really, why should every OS wanting to
> package it go to the trouble of doing this (and redoing for every/most
> updates)?
As I said in private, I do agree. I'll work with upstream to try improve this.
New port attached which patches the dep versions. This builds and
installs on -current.
.joel
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