apache-beam[gcp] dependency issue with dataflow/flex-templates/getting_started/requirements.txt

[davidkooijman]

In which file did you encounter the issue?

dataflow/flex-templates/getting_started/requirements.txt

Did you change the file? If so, how?

apache-beam[gcp]==2.48.0 to apache-beam[gcp]==2.* and added google-auth-httplib2==0.2.*

Describe the issue

While building the example as stated in the getting started documentation here, you will get an error stating:
ERROR: Cannot install apache-beam[gcp]==2.48.0 and google-auth-httplib2==0.2.0 because these package versions have conflicting dependencies. this is because I think the current version of apache-beam[gcp] is 2.60.0 and conflicts with other dependencies as 2.48.0 uses an older google-auth-httplib2 dependency.

My suggestion is to just include the major versioning 2.* as for the example it might not be that important to have a fully fixed version.