pylint was recently updated to 2.7.4 but py-astroid was not updated which results in spyder3 breaking
raise VersionConflict(dist, req).with_context(dependent_req) pkg_resources.ContextualVersionConflict: (astroid 2.5.1 (/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages), Requirement.parse('astroid<2.7,>=2.5.2'), {'pylint'}) this should fix things. Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/ports/devel/py-astroid/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.15 diff -u -p -r1.15 Makefile --- Makefile 4 Mar 2021 02:56:30 -0000 1.15 +++ Makefile 5 Apr 2021 09:19:07 -0000 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ COMMENT = common base representation of Python source code -MODPY_EGG_VERSION = 2.5.1 +MODPY_EGG_VERSION = 2.5.2 DISTNAME = astroid-${MODPY_EGG_VERSION} PKGNAME = py-${DISTNAME} CATEGORIES = devel Index: distinfo =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/ports/devel/py-astroid/distinfo,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -p -r1.6 distinfo --- distinfo 4 Mar 2021 02:56:30 -0000 1.6 +++ distinfo 5 Apr 2021 09:19:11 -0000 @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ -SHA256 (astroid-2.5.1.tar.gz) = z8NUmO5kAXvgWc7/qwolvt91SKt28r6mkcVWWJbnEo0= -SIZE (astroid-2.5.1.tar.gz) = 312511 +SHA256 (astroid-2.5.2.tar.gz) = aw7Rr4MVcOUA4kN2JZeeqjs2AR9m3fxM6TAShhAljKk= +SIZE (astroid-2.5.2.tar.gz) = 312789