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flake8 5.0.4 dependency error upon pip install azdev

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing pip install azdev and then run azdev style, comparing the installed flake8, importlib-metadata, and mccabe versions with the reported requirements. Trace the dependency declarations used by the installation and verify that installation completes without incompatible requirements while the style command remains runnable.

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Description

I am getting the following error after running pip install azdev:

ERROR: flake8 5.0.4 has requirement importlib-metadata<4.3,>=1.1.0; python_version < "3.8", but you'll have importlib-metadata 6.6.0 which is incompatible.
ERROR: flake8 5.0.4 has requirement mccabe<0.8.0,>=0.7.0, but you'll have mccabe 0.6.1 which is incompatible.

It finished installing afterward, so I don't know what this blocks. Since it is a tool related to style guides, I assume it would introduce issues for azdev style. I was able to run azdev style and it just had a bunch of linting errors. However, the Pylint passed.

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