Please help maintain the Azure-cli conda packages
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The azure-cli packages on [conda-forge](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/azure-cli-core) and [bioconda](https://anaconda.org/bioconda/azure-cli) are over a year out of date. As a result, Azure is not really usable with conda (for example only the legacy _azure cli_, rather than the _az cli_ is available into a conda environment and not with python 3.8 or 3.9). You can hack it by using pip to install into a conda environment but [this is dangerous and can break things](https://www.anaconda.com/blog/using-pip-in-a-conda-environment).
If Microsoft wants Azure to reach the scientific and quantitative communities it should really do more help to maintain the packages that serve its products to these data science practitioners.
I've also tried manually building the azure-cli package with conda skeleton, but the recipe that is automatically generated is not understood by conda so the build fails.
```
$ conda skeleton pypi azure-cli
```
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