2014-03-24 22:16 GMT+01:00 Adam Gandelman <adamg@ubuntu.com>:
I don't know of any examples of introducing *new* deps in stable branch updates, but there have been several occasions where version requirements were bumped higher to unblock gate issues. IMHO that can be worse for stable distros (as opposed to requiring a new dependency that most can provide)
We recently had a version bump for neutronclient and documented it in release notes https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes/2013.2.2#Neutron But OpenStack clients don't have official stable branch, so in theory should be safe to update.
Actually, the version bump still didn't reach the stable/havana branch [updated in master only]. The review is still 'in progress' (aka 'stuck') [first patch sent Feb 21]: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/82154/ /Ihar