Issues with protobuf's version while using BentoML

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In my project, I need to use the latest versions of both bentoml and flytekit. I've noticed that bentoml is locking the version of protobuf to <4.0. Whereas, flytekit requires protobuf = ">=4.21.1,<5.0.0" When I was trying to use pip-compile to generate a requirements.txt file, I get a version conflict error. I was wondering if there is any specific reason for bentoml to lock it below 4.0 or if there's any workaround.

It’s the opentelemetry-proto from bentoml that seems to be causing this since it is doing ~=3.13. Can we exclude it from bentoml? If so, how?