On 2021-09-07 11:09:45 +0200 (+0200), Thomas Goirand wrote: [...]
since we have pinned global requirements, will these new updates be included in the tests of older OpenStack releases? Is this really the case right now? [...]
They generally shouldn't, and most of the time can't realistically, have their entries altered in stable branches of the upper-constraints.txt file we use to pin dependency versions. To be able to do so would prevent them from using new features of their own dependencies in master branch development, since those would end up also needing updates in the pinned list of transitive stable branch constraints, which is exactly what we want to avoid. The workaround is to create a stable branch of the repository from the last version which was tagged during the cycle for the release which needs a fix to that independent deliverable backported. Those cases are rare, and basically what you would include as a stable distro package update for that coordinated release series anyway. -- Jeremy Stanley