diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/workaround-transitive-deps-1e7a214f3256b77e.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/workaround-transitive-deps-1e7a214f3256b77e.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aa1b361dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/workaround-transitive-deps-1e7a214f3256b77e.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+fixes:
+  - Added requests and Babel to the direct dependencies list to work around
+    issues with pip installation, entrypoints and transitive dependencies
+    with conflicting exclusion ranges. Packagers of shade do not need to
+    add these two new requirements to shade's dependency list - they are
+    transitive depends and should be satisfied by the other things in the
+    requirements list. Both will be removed from the list again once the
+    python client libraries that pull them in have been removed.
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 30a7fdd6d..e4d049970 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ jmespath>=0.9.0 # MIT
 jsonpatch>=1.1 # BSD
 ipaddress>=1.0.7;python_version<'3.3' # PSF
 os-client-config>=1.22.0 # Apache-2.0
+# These two are here to prevent issues with version pin mismatches from our
+# client library transitive depends.
+# Babel can be removed when ironicclient is removed (because of openstackclient
+# transitive depend)
+Babel>=2.3.4,!=2.4.0  # BSD
+# requests can be removed when designateclient is removed
+requests>=2.10.0,!=2.12.2,!=2.13.0  # Apache-2.0
 requestsexceptions>=1.2.0 # Apache-2.0
 six>=1.9.0 # MIT
 futures>=3.0;python_version=='2.7' or python_version=='2.6' # BSD