Limit Google Protobuf for compatibility with biggtable client

[potiuk]

The bigtable client does not work well with protobuf > 3.20.0 and
it should be limited until we solve the problem.

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[potiuk]

Ok. This problem is fixed (wait for PROD image succeeded tests).

[mikharkiv]

Hello! Thank you for the fix!

As I can see, this affects Google provider too. Can we expect a release for Google provider with this fix?

[potiuk]

Yes. As usual - regular provider release is coming some time soon.

[mdering]

since there isn't much here, i was wondering if this requirement is still necessary or if it could be relaxed

[potiuk]

since there isn't much here, i was wondering if this requirement is still necessary or if it could be relaxed

I think you will never know until you try

[potiuk]

PRs are most welcome :)

[mdering]

I'm happy to submit a PR (especially an easy one like this). before I do that, i was wondering if there was any sense of what the issue was that lead to this.

[potiuk]

I'm happy to submit a PR (especially an easy one like this). before I do that, i was wondering if there was any sense of what the issue was that lead to this.

It did not install back then and broke our tests. The only way to check if it is fixed now is to make a PR and run the tests by doing it. We have 650+ dependencies in Airflow. No-one follows every single relase of every one of them - so no-one knows if the problem is fixed.

The only way to see if the problem is fixed is tro try it.