Jest-cli installations break when version is <=22.3.0

[trevorharwell]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
Bug

What is the current behavior?
New installations of jest-cli that use a version <=v22.3.0 break.
If you look at the package.json for any of the versions in that range the dependency version specified for jest-util is ^22.3.0 which will resolve to jest-util 22.x.x. As of jest-util version 22.4.0 a breaking change was added where the validateCLIOptions method was moved from jest-util to jest-validate. This is the PR and commit in question:

#5536
ba1366b#diff-c4d2f45d479f76f83c356be6fe8d74f9L50

What is the expected behavior?
That a backwards compatible version of jest-util exists in the 22.x.x version range.
I honestly think it might be better to use ~ instead of ^ on dependency versions so this sort of thing doesn't happen in the future.

[SimenB]

Sorry about this, but we won't go back and fix it.

I honestly think it might be better to use ~ instead of ^ on dependency versions so this sort of thing doesn't happen in the future.

We could potentially lock down the deps from within this repo, they don't really need the range (jest and jest-cli would always point to the correct one for that version)

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