Non-semver packages cannot be specified as "*"

[SwampFalc]

• I am on the latest Poetry version.
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Possibly somewhat related to #1505

I would like to add black as a dev-dependency. I honestly don't care what version (we'll see what happens if I ever run into an uncompatible version) so I started out with poetry add black and then I edited the pyproject.toml to read black = "*". Yet whenever I try using it like that, I get this error:

 [SolverProblemError]
Because fedasit depends on black (*) which doesn't match any versions, version solving failed.

I removed black and then tried to add it back in using ``poetry add black@*" and that failed in the exact same way.

I have other packages listed as "*" in my project (pylint f.ex.) and those work fine, with the major difference being that those use semver and black doesn't...

So I am assuming there is a bug in the code that makes "*" not match anything that is not semver...

[PetterS]

It is because black only has pre-releases. You have to allow pre-releases.

[SwampFalc]

Aha, that does indeed work, thanks.

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