FREEBSD - pstuil dependency too high

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Summary

• OS: FREEBSD 11
• Architecture: 64bit
• Psutil version: 5.8.0
• Python version: Python 3.8.12
• Type: installation

Description

• dependency for psutil is higher than neccessary (5.9.4)
• Freebsd 11 ships with python 3.8 which is supported. this comes with psutil 5.8.0
  • pip psutil cannot be installed because of an upstream bug with python headers (resolved in later Freebsd releases)
  • Freebsd 11 is out of support so a fix will likely not come
• this project runs fine with psutil 5.8.0 when installed manually (tested with symlinked distro-psutil into the venv site-packages)

possible fix

• lower the required version of psutil to 5.8.0
• pip installation should be working fine in freebsd 11

comment

• freebsd 11 is old but it still runs on some hosts with a lot of jails for automation
• with this bug, it is currently not working, though the python-version 3.8 is good enough
• fixing this should be a low-hanging fruit