[Python-modules-team] Bug#812465: Please do not be so restrictive with versions of urllib3

[Thomas Goirand]

Package: python-requests
Version: 2.9.1-1
Severity: normal

Hi there,

python-requests (build-)dependencies on urllib3 are too restrictive, in a
way which doesn't allow backporting without tweaking (build-)dependencies.

Instead of writing something like this:
python-urllib3 (= 1.13.1-1)

please write something like this:
python-urllib3 (>= 1.13.1-1~), python-urllib3 (<< 1.13.2)

so that we don't need to "fix" the dependencies when doing a backport.
Please note that the fact requests is already maintained or not within
the official Jessie backports isn't relevant. Here, I needed to do
backports to Trusty, and one may want to backport to another derivative
of Debian.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)