Backport PR #35754: CI: Min Pytest Cov Version/Restrict xdist version (#35761)

Co-authored-by: Ali McMaster <[email protected]>

Author: meeseeksmachine

ci/deps/azure-windows-36.yaml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dependencies:
   # tools
   - cython>=0.29.16
   - pytest>=5.0.1
-  - pytest-xdist>=1.21
+  - pytest-xdist>=1.21,<2.0.0 # GH 35737
   - hypothesis>=3.58.0
   - pytest-azurepipelines
 

ci/deps/azure-windows-37.yaml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dependencies:
   # tools
   - cython>=0.29.16
   - pytest>=5.0.1
-  - pytest-xdist>=1.21
+  - pytest-xdist>=1.21,<2.0.0 # GH 35737
   - hypothesis>=3.58.0
   - pytest-azurepipelines
 

ci/deps/travis-36-cov.yaml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ dependencies:
   - pytest>=5.0.1
   - pytest-xdist>=1.21
   - hypothesis>=3.58.0
-  - pytest-cov  # this is only needed in the coverage build
+  - pytest-cov>=2.10.1  # this is only needed in the coverage build, ref: GH 35737
 
   # pandas dependencies
   - beautifulsoup4