On 05/12/2016 09:57 AM, Igor Yozhikov wrote: > > Hello. > > According to proposed changes in G-R > (https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/newton-global-requirements) related > to ranges/bounds I want to clarify situation for Linux packagers. > > Very often packages for requirements mentioned in requirements.txt or > global-requirements file are built using code versions set in lower > bounds. Usage of broader range for requirements will lead to complex > calculations of minimum version of requirement which will satisfy all of > projects which are using it. From perspective of packaging - must be > only one installed version of requirement in a system. > > To avoid this complexity and provide co-installability, upper > constraints could be used as the source of minimal version for > requirements in system package. >
Hi, Gentoo packager here :D The basic gist of it is that g-r.txt is what's expected to work and u-c.txt is what's tested to work. There have been specs out there to test a lower-contraints.txt file but I haven't seen it go anywhere quite yet. -- -- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
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