On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 3:11 PM Stefan Krah <stefan@bytereef.org> wrote:

It is not hyperbolic at all. You can get permissions for a certain set
of modules (the stdlib), but not for PyPI packages.

Of course the upgrade is not via the network, that is beside the point.

If you can update to a breaking Python version, but aren't allowed one single point version of an external module, you have a process problem.