From 479ed1e366967179e761d65e8020904efdbd2b43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jody Klymak <jklymak@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 03:53:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #29834: TST: pin flake8

---
 environment.yml                 | 2 +-
 requirements/testing/flake8.txt | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index 8c4221d0a0fa..d95cab0509ff 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ dependencies:
   # testing
   - black<24
   - coverage
-  - flake8>=3.8
+  - flake8>=3.8,<7.2
   - flake8-docstrings>=1.4.0
   - gtk4
   - ipykernel
diff --git a/requirements/testing/flake8.txt b/requirements/testing/flake8.txt
index a4d006b8551e..cb34fee3f385 100644
--- a/requirements/testing/flake8.txt
+++ b/requirements/testing/flake8.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Extra pip requirements for the GitHub Actions flake8 build
 
-flake8>=3.8
+flake8>=3.8,<7.2
 # versions less than 5.1.0 raise on some interp'd docstrings
 pydocstyle>=5.1.0
 # 1.4.0 adds docstring-convention=all