I can now confirm that https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/requirements/+/810859 fixes my CI use case.  (By temporarily using a fork of the requirements repo that includes that change.)

(Fix detail if needed here: https://github.com/projectcalico/networking-calico/pull/64/commits/cbed6282405957f7d60b6e0790c91fb852afe84c)

Best wishes.
     Neil


On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 6:28 PM Neil Jerram <neil@tigera.io> wrote:
Is anyone helping to progress this?  I just checked that stable/ussuri devstack is still broken.

Best wishes,
    Neil


On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 9:20 AM Neil Jerram <neil@tigera.io> wrote:
But I don't think that solution works for devstack, does it?  Is there a way to pin setuptools in a stable/ussuri devstack run, except by changing the stable branch of the requirements project?


On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 7:50 PM Előd Illés <elod.illes@est.tech> wrote:
Hi again,

as I see there is no objection yet about using gibi's solution [1] (as I
already summarized the situation in my previous mail [2]) for a fix for
similar cases, so with a general stable core hat on, I *suggest*
everyone to use that solution to pin the setuptools in tox for every
failing cases (so that to avoid similar future errors as well).

[1] https://review.opendev.org/810461
[2]
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2021-September/025059.html

Előd


On 2021. 09. 27. 14:47, Balazs Gibizer wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 24 2021 at 10:21:33 PM +0200, Thomas Goirand
> <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
>> Hi Gibi!
>>
>> Thanks for bringing this up.
>>
>> As a distro package maintainer, here's my view.
>>
>> On 9/22/21 2:11 PM, Balazs Gibizer wrote:
>>>  Option 1: Bump the major version of the decorator dependency on
>>> stable.
>>
>> Decorator 4.0.11 is even in Debian Stretch (currently oldoldstable), for
>> which I don't even maintain OpenStack anymore (that's OpenStack
>> Newton...). So I don't see how switching to decorator 4.0.0 is a
>> problem, and I don't understand how OpenStack could be using 3.4.0 which
>> is in Jessie (ie: 6 years old Debian release).
>>
>> PyPi says Decorator 3.4.0 is from 2012:
>> https://pypi.org/project/decorator/#history
>>
>> Do you have your release numbers correct? If so, then switching to
>> Decorator 4.4.2 (available in Debian Bullseye (shipped with Victoria)
>> and Ubuntu >=Focal) looks like reasonable to me... Sticking with 3.4.0
>> feels a bit crazy (and I wasn't aware of it).
>
> Thanks for the info. So from Debian perspective it is OK to bump the
> decorator version on stable. As others noted in this thread it seems
> to be more than just decorator that broke. :/
>
>>
>>>  Option 2: Pin the setuptools version during tox installation
>>
>> Please don't do this for the master branch, we need OpenStack to stay
>> current with setuptools (yeah, even if this means breaking changes...).
>
> I've no intention to pin it on master. Master needs to work with the
> latest and greatest. Also on master it is easier to fix / replace the
> dependencies that become broken with new setuptools.
>
>>
>> For already released OpenStack: I don't mind much if this is done (I
>> could backport fixes if something breaks).
>
> ack
>
>>
>>>  Option 3: turn off lower-constraints testing
>>
>> I already expressed myself about this: this is dangerous as distros rely
>> on it for setting lower bounds as low as possible (which is always
>> preferred from a distro point of view).
>>
>>>  Option 4: utilize pyproject.toml[6] to specify build-time requirements
>>
>> I don't know about pyproject.toml.
>>
>> Just my 2 cents, hoping it's useful,
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> gibi
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>>
>
>
>