diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 69c6a3e9..4e3c8489 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ hacking>=4.0.0,<5.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 
 # ansible-lint requires ansible>=2.9
 ansible>=5,<6
-# pin until https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint/issues/2320 is fixed
+# pin these two until someone has time to update all our skips to >=6.16
 ansible-lint>=6,<6.5
-# avoid for https://github.com/ansible/ansible-compat/issues/258
-ansible-compat!=4.0.1,!=4.0.2
+ansible-compat<4
 bashate>=0.2