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

[Ian Cordasco]

Hi Thomas,

Requests has a policy of only supporting one version of urllib3. As
such, Debian attempting to be less restrictive will result in Debian
having to carry patches for those versions of urllib3 which Requests
will not support. The Requests project has already made accommodations
with Debian and Fedora to only use versions of urllib3 that have been
released.

If you'd like to develop patches to make backporting requests without
backporting the necessary version of urllib3, that's fine. I don't
think there should be a policy of carrying unnecessary unsupported
patches that will likely cause more bug reports than not.

Cheers,
Ian