What version of gRPC and what language are you using?

grpc rubygem

What operating system (Linux, Windows,...) and version?

debian gnu/linux

What runtime / compiler are you using (e.g. python version or version of gcc)

What did you do?

In debian, we want to update googleauth gem to 1.3 but grpc gemspec has a stricter requirement s.add_development_dependency 'googleauth', '>= 0.5.1', '< 0.10'

We prefer to use a single version of googleauth across debian so this is blocking our googleauth update.

What did you expect to see?

This dependency should be updated with a less strict requirement (assuming semver.org compliance since it is 1.0 release) to '~> 1.0'

What did you see instead?

stricter requirement for an older version as mentioned earlier.

Anything else we should know about your project / environment?

In debian, we prefer to use a single version of a library or a tool (in exceptional cases we do provide multiple versions for example multiple versions of gcc or python but we try to minimize this) to reduce the overall maintenance since we support this version for 5 years.