Hi Thomas, Requests has a policy of only supporting one version of urllib3. As such, Debian attempting to be less restrictive will result in Debian having to carry patches for those versions of urllib3 which Requests will not support. The Requests project has already made accommodations with Debian and Fedora to only use versions of urllib3 that have been released.
If you'd like to develop patches to make backporting requests without backporting the necessary version of urllib3, that's fine. I don't think there should be a policy of carrying unnecessary unsupported patches that will likely cause more bug reports than not. Cheers, Ian
