From 27f62432f56c808d7c83ffaaa529a2ad1b1c2140 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathaniel Manista <nathaniel@google.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 19:12:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove ceiling on required protobuf version

This is possible now that https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/855
is fixed (or at least appears to be fixed).
---
 src/python/grpcio/setup.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/python/grpcio/setup.py b/src/python/grpcio/setup.py
index b8a98c3d859..366ebe3b3fb 100644
--- a/src/python/grpcio/setup.py
+++ b/src/python/grpcio/setup.py
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ TEST_PACKAGE_DATA = {
 
 TESTS_REQUIRE = (
     'oauth2client>=1.4.7',
-    'protobuf==3.0.0a3',
+    'protobuf>=3.0.0a3',
     'coverage>=4.0',
 ) + INSTALL_REQUIRES