James Morris

That does help a bit, yes. To be clear, my distro ships redis 5.0.5 and I'm currently using redis-py 3.5.3. I take it then that I can't upgrade to redis-py...

While I agree that there should be some clarity, the discussion you reference is incorrect that the `--python` option will update the Python version. To upgrade a project from one...

`pip` has the `list --outdated` command. Could you hook into that maybe?

Yes, Django started requiring asgiref in Django 3. If you look at the requirements for Django 2.2.x, asgiref is absent: https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/2.2.x/setup.py#L86