new file mode 100644
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+From e66d514b4113fffc81e48c7c531dcf148ba8b8e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
+Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:25:57 -0500
+Subject: Loosen compatible release identifiers for install_requires
+
+The install_requires entries use a compatible release operator. As an
+example, "requests~=2.24.0" maps to a requirement of ">= 2.24.0 and ==
+2.24.*". With the current version of requests (2.25.1), this leads to
+a ContextualVersionConflict failure at runtime.
+
+Allowing only Z to tick in version X.Y.Z seems unnecessarily strict
+unless there are known problems with a particular release, and it
+makes it more difficult for distributions to package b4. Drop the
+trailing digit from all of the version identifiers, allowing both Y
+and Z to increase.
+
+Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
+Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
+---
+ This patch was taken from the upstream repository and will be included in
+ the next release.
+
+ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/patch/?id=e66d514b4113fffc81e48c7c531dcf148ba8b8e8
+
+ setup.py | 6 +++---
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 358e6a7..a21ec76 100644
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ setup(
+ data_files = [('share/man/man5', ['man/b4.5'])],
+ keywords=['git', 'lore.kernel.org', 'patches'],
+ install_requires=[
+- 'requests~=2.24.0',
+- 'dkimpy~=1.0.5',
+- 'dnspython~=2.0.0',
++ 'requests~=2.24',
++ 'dkimpy~=1.0',
++ 'dnspython~=2.0',
+ ],
+ python_requires='>=3.6',
+ entry_points={
@@ -2347,7 +2347,8 @@ (define-public b4
(method url-fetch)
(uri (pypi-uri "b4" version))
(sha256
- (base32 "1j904dy9cwxl85k2ngc498q5cdnqwsmw3jibjr1m55w8aqdck68z"))))
+ (base32 "1j904dy9cwxl85k2ngc498q5cdnqwsmw3jibjr1m55w8aqdck68z"))
+ (patches (search-patches "b4-loosen-version-identifiers.patch"))))
(build-system python-build-system)
(arguments '(#:tests? #f)) ; No tests.
(inputs