APE 18: What does it really mean for other runtime dependencies? #80
Description
This sentence in APE 18:
Versions of other runtime dependencies released 24 months prior to a non-bugfix release.
I guess I cannot understand what "prior to a non-bugfix release" mean. I need examples.
As of writing this, astropy has this in its setup.cfg and 24 months ago was Nov 2020:
pyerfa>=2.0-- This was released in May 2021. 24 months ago includes 1.7.1.1. So, why not 1.7?PyYAML>=3.13-- It is 6.0 now. 3.13 was released in July 2018. Why didn't we bump to 5.4 (released Jan 2021)?packaging>=19.0-- It is 21.3 now. 19.0 was released in Jan 2019. Why didn't we bump to 20.5 (released Nov 2020)?
Do the optional dependencies count as "runtime" dependencies or we only bump as needed?