Fix broken protobuf ranges (#1660)

* fix broken protobuf ranges

* Remove protobuf upgrade step from GHA (#1661)

* Remove protobuf upgrade step

* Remove protobuf upgrade step from other workflows

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Co-authored-by: Rahul Tuli <[email protected]>

Author: dsikka

.github/workflows/Integrations-post-merge-check.yaml

@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ jobs:
         run: pip3 install -U pip && pip3 install setuptools sparsezoo/
       - name: "Clean sparsezoo directory"
         run: rm -r sparsezoo/
-      - name: "Upgrade protobuf version"
-        run: pip3 install --upgrade protobuf
       - name: "⚙️ Install dependencies"
         run: pip3 install .[dev,torchvision,deepsparse,onnxruntime,transformers,yolov5]
       - name: "🔬 Running integrations tests (cadence: commit}})"

.github/workflows/integrations-check.yaml

@@ -62,8 +62,6 @@ jobs:
         run: pip3 install -U pip && pip3 install setuptools sparsezoo/
       - name: "Clean sparsezoo directory"
         run: rm -r sparsezoo/
-      - name: "Upgrade protobuf version"
-        run: pip3 install --upgrade protobuf
       - name: "⚙️ Install dependencies"
         run: pip3 install .[dev,torchvision,deepsparse,onnxruntime,transformers,yolov5]
       - name: "🔬 Running integrations tests (cadence: pre-commit}})"

.github/workflows/test-check.yaml

@@ -73,8 +73,6 @@ jobs:
         run: pip3 install -U pip && pip3 install setuptools sparsezoo/
       - name: "Clean sparsezoo directory"
         run: rm -r sparsezoo/
-      - name: "Upgrade protobuf version"
-        run: pip3 install --upgrade protobuf
       - name: "⚙️ Install dependencies"
         run: pip3 install .[dev,onnxruntime]
       - name: "🔬 Running base tests"
@@ -99,8 +97,6 @@ jobs:
         run: pip3 install -U pip && pip3 install setuptools sparsezoo/
       - name: "Clean sparsezoo directory"
         run: rm -r sparsezoo/
-      - name: "Upgrade protobuf version"
-        run: pip3 install --upgrade protobuf
       - name: "⚙️ Install dependencies"
         run: pip3 install .[dev,deepsparse,onnxruntime]
       - name: "🔬 Running deepsparse tests"

setup.py

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
     "tqdm>=4.0.0",
     "toposort>=1.0",
     "GPUtil>=1.4.0",
-    "protobuf>=3.12.2",
+    "protobuf>=3.12.2,<=3.20.3",
     "click>=7.1.2,!=8.0.0",  # latest version < 8.0 + blocked version with reported bug
 ]
 _nm_deps = [f"{'sparsezoo' if is_release else 'sparsezoo-nightly'}~={version_nm_deps}"]