Are all the strict requirements necessary?

Impacted versions

• Modoboa: 1.15.*
• installer used: No
• Webserver: Nginx

Steps to reproduce

Currently Modoboa comes with a rather long list of strict requirements. In particular these include:

• dnspython==1.16.0
• gevent==1.4.0
• dateutil==2.2
• passlib==1.7.2
• feedparser==5.2.1

Does it really, really, really only work with these particular versions or can these be replaced by minimum compatible version requirements (such as gevent~=1.4, feedparser~=5.2,>=5.2.1, etc)?

In particular gevent is super slow to build and I’d really like to replace it with the native version provided by Alpine in my Docker image, but I can’t because of the strict version requirement.

[tonioo]

I guess we can close it since requirements are updated more frequently with depandabot;

[tonioo]

I’m mainly talking about deprecation issues… I guess the easiest way to check is to install latest versions of each dependency and check if Modoboa still works.