Please do not depend on pre-release versions in stable releases

[dvzrv]

Hi! 👋

I'm packaging this project for Arch Linux. Upon trying to upgrade to 23.5.3, I noticed that this project now depends on a pre-release version of molecule:

molecule-plugins/pyproject.toml

Line 43 in b48ead5

"molecule >= 6.0.0a1",

Can you please only do this in pre-release versions of this project and not in (stable) patch-level releases? 😸

When looking at 23.5.0, it is handled correctly there:

molecule-plugins/pyproject.toml

Line 42 in c516dac

"molecule >= 5.0",

If I had bumped this version we would most likely yet again have a broken molecule + plugins on Arch Linux. Checking for these scenarios manually, instead of being able to rely on common practices (e.g. semver guarantees) is very time consuming and downstream packagers work on packaging this project in their free time.

This situation can be prevented by doing pre-releases (which we purposefully ignore downstream) for this project in which you rely on whatever pre-release version of your dependencies you require. Doing this in stable releases however is a recipe for disaster.