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 subunit2SQL README
 ==================
 
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 subunit2SQL is a tool for storing test results data in a SQL database. Like
 it's name implies it was originally designed around converting `subunit`_
 streams to data in a SQL database and the packaged utilities assume a subunit
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 alembic>=0.4.1
 oslo.config>=1.4.0.0a3
-oslo.db>=2.1.0
+oslo.db>=2.1.0,<4.15.0
 pbr>=1.0.0
 python-subunit>=0.0.18
 six>=1.5.2