integration_test Depends on Old Version of test_api (0.4.3) - How Can I Upgrade?

Question

I'm trying to keep all my dependencies up to date, but integration_test and flutter_test seem to depend on test_api 0.4.3, and won't accept versions higher than this. I've had this problem for several months. I've watched several Flutter versions roll by. Each time, I think it will be fixed, and the problem remains. I currently have installed

Flutter 2.8.1 • channel stable

The current version of test is 1.20.1 but if I try to use the latest package, I get this error when I do a flutter pub get

Because test >=1.20.0 depends on test_api 0.4.9 and every version of integration_test from sdk depends on test_api 0.4.3, test >=1.20.0 is incompatible with integration_test from sdk. So, because assets_app depends on both integration_test from sdk and test ^1.20.1, version solving failed.

I checked out the package on GitHub for integration_test and as you can see, it points to 0.4.9 of test_api . So, the only thing I can think of is that the current Flutter SDK points to an older version of integration_test .

It looks as though test is generally outdated because if I try to upgrade analyzer , I get this:

Because every version of flutter_test from sdk depends on test_api 0.4.3 and test >=1.20.0 depends on test_api 0.4.9, flutter_test from sdk is incompatible with test >=1.20.0. And because test >=1.17.10 <1.20.0 depends on analyzer >=1.0.0 <3.0.0 and test >=1.16.6 <1.17.10 depends on analyzer ^1.0.0, if flutter_test from sdk and test >=1.16.6 then analyzer >=1.0.0 <3.0.0. And because test >=1.16.1 <1.16.6 depends on analyzer >=0.39.5 <2.0.0 and test >=1.16.0-nullsafety.10 <1.16.1 depends on analyzer >=0.36.0 <0.42.0, if flutter_test from sdk and test >=1.16.0-nullsafety.10 then analyzer >=0.36.0 <3.0.0. And because test >=1.16.0-nullsafety <1.16.0-nullsafety.8 requires SDK version >=2.10.0-0 <2.12.0 and test <1.3.0 requires SDK version >=1.8.0 <2.0.0-∞, if flutter_test from sdk and test <1.3.0-∞ or >=1.16.0-nullsafety <1.16.0-nullsafety.8 or >=1.16.0-nullsafety.10 then analyzer >=0.36.0 <3.0.0. And because test >=1.3.0 <1.16.0-nullsafety depends on yaml ^2.0.0 and test >=1.16.0-nullsafety.8 <1.16.0-nullsafety.12 depends on yaml ^2.0.0, if flutter_test from sdk and test any then analyzer >=0.36.0 <3.0.0 or yaml ^2.0.0. And because assets_app depends on analyzer ^3.2.0 which depends on yaml ^3.0.0, flutter_test from sdk is incompatible with test. So, because assets_app depends on both flutter_test from sdk and test any, version solving failed.

How can we upgrade integration_test so that we can also use test_api 0.4.9, and test 1.20.1?

Answer 1

Flutter pins it's dependencies. That's it. You have two options.

1. Wait for the next flutter release that has a version pin that you want
2. add a dependency override to get the latest version