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Am 05/03/15 um 17:37 schrieb Ian Cordasco:
> The clients in general do not back port patches. Someone should work with
> stable-maint to raise the cap in Icehouse and Juno. I suspect, however,
> that those caps were added due to the client breaking other projects.
> Proposals can be made though and ideally, openstack/requirements’ gate
> jobs will catch any breakage.

I don't think that raising the cap will be feasible anymore with 
incompatible changes like the oslo namespace drop.

What prevents clients from having stable branches except "we never did 
this because up to now it wasn't necessary"?

> On 3/5/15, 10:28, "Dr. Jens Rosenboom" <j.rosenboom at x-ion.de> wrote:
>
>> Am 05/03/15 um 06:02 schrieb Nikhil Komawar:
>>> The python-glanceclient release management team is pleased to announce:
>>>       python-glanceclient version 0.16.1 has been released on Thursday,
>>> Mar 5th around 04:56 UTC.
>>
>> The release includes a bugfix for [1], which is affecting us in
>> Icehouse, most likely Juno is also affected. However, due to the
>> requirements caps recently introduced, the bugfix will not be picked up
>> by the stable branches (caps are <=0.14.2 for Icehouse and <=0.15.0 for
>> Juno).
>>
>> The patch itself [2] applies cleanly to the older code, so in theory it
>> should be possible to build some 0.14.3 release with that and update the
>> stable requirements accordingly. But I guess that this would require
>> setting up stable branches for the client git repo, which currently
>> don't exist.
>>
>> Are there plans to do this or is there some other way to backport the
>> fix? I assume that the same issue may happen with other client releases
>> in the future.
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-glanceclient/+bug/1423165
>> [2] https://review.openstack.org/156975
>>
>>
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