[Bug]: gprcio limitation to < 1.66 in Python is problematic

[potiuk]

What happened?

Some of the dependencies of Airflow (ydb) started to expect grpcio > 1.68.1 and apache-beam has < 1.66 - this is causing us to limit the other packages from installing - which we do not really like to do. It would be great to lift the upper-bound limitation if possible.

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Priority: 2 (default / most bugs should be filed as P2)

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[liferoad]

https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/setup.py#L358 and grpc/grpc#37710

[liferoad]

cc @tvalentyn

[tvalentyn]

grpc/grpc#37710 was never rootcaused; we could try to lift the restriction, and see if the issue is present in recent grpc versions.

[potiuk]

grpc/grpc#37710 was never rootcaused; we could try to lift the restriction, and see if the issue is present in recent grpc versions.

Sounds reasonable indeed. Thanks for looking at it!