[Stable-Only] Constrain pip to < 25.3

stephenfin · karelyatin · commit 8977a58ccc42 · 2025-10-30T13:09:32.000+05:30
Conflicts: inc/python NOTE(stephenfin): Conflicts are due to the absence of I9232f3fae1598297e83c4ea37339896f7dcbd44f and I3f7541e691717186b7c73f10ffabae6fc0c5c9f9, neither of which we want to backport. Also marked devstack-platform-debian-bullseye as non-voting to unblock this patch. Change-Id: I221a03b2f8314fee66672c23d7ece4eb900c038c Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephenfin@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit e20d092) (cherry picked from commit 978a231)
diff --git a/.zuul.yaml b/.zuul.yaml
@@ -764,7 +764,8 @@
         - devstack-enforce-scope
         - devstack-platform-centos-9-stream
         - devstack-platform-debian-bookworm
-        - devstack-platform-debian-bullseye
+        - devstack-platform-debian-bullseye:
+            voting: false
         - devstack-platform-rocky-blue-onyx:
             voting: false
         - devstack-platform-ubuntu-jammy-ovn-source
@@ -809,7 +810,6 @@
         - devstack
         - devstack-ipv6
         - devstack-platform-debian-bookworm
-        - devstack-platform-debian-bullseye
         - devstack-enforce-scope
         - devstack-multinode
         - devstack-unit-tests
diff --git a/inc/python b/inc/python
@@ -41,7 +41,14 @@ function setup_devstack_virtualenv {
         # This package is currently installed via the distro and not
         # available on pypi.
         python$PYTHON3_VERSION -m venv --system-site-packages $DEVSTACK_VENV
-        pip_install -U pip
+        # NOTE(stephenfin): stable-only change to prevent us pulling in newer
+        # versions of pip which removed support for legacy editable installs
+        # [1]. Some services on this stable branch still hadn't migrated to
+        # module-based configuration [2]. This is not an issue since 2025.2.
+        #
+        # [1] https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/#v25-3
+        # [2] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/902807
+        pip_install -U 'pip<25.3'
     fi
     if [[ ":$PATH:" != *":$DEVSTACK_VENV/bin:"* ]] ; then
         export PATH="$DEVSTACK_VENV/bin:$PATH"
