There's nothing in the reqs repo that prevents you from updating the minimum in requirements.txt as well (global-requirements does not track versions execpt known bad ones and sometimes a cap). As for requiring a feature release, ya, that could be a problem but the release team would be best to ask about it.
Yeah sorry, I should have been more explicit in my first email. My concern is how to fix this without making the stable branch unreleaseable. I already proposed a patch to bump the version on master, but I don't think it's valid for backport. Maybe I should have tagged stable instead (done).
Well, in this case we know it's completely broken, so I think that makes some of the decision for us. It's better to do a stable release that will unbreak things than to keep a broken build out there because our process tells us we have to. Sean