Update pylint requirement from ~=2.5.2 to ~=2.9.6 in /config

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Updates the requirements on pylint to permit the latest version.

Changelog

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What's New in Pylint 2.9.6?

Release date: 2021-07-28

• Fix a false positive undefined-variable when variable name in decoration matches function argument

  Closes #3791

What's New in Pylint 2.9.5?

Release date: 2021-07-21

• Fix a crash when there would be a 'TypeError object does not support item assignment' in the code we parse.

  Closes #4439

• Fix crash if a callable returning a context manager was assigned to a list or dict item

  Closes #4732

• Fix a crash when a AttributeInferenceError was not handled properly when failing to infer the real name of an import in astroid.

  Closes #4692

What's New in Pylint 2.9.4?

Release date: 2021-07-20

• Added time.clock to deprecated functions/methods for python 3.3

• Fix bug in which --fail-on can return a zero exit code even when the specified issue is present

  Closes #4296 Closes #3363

• Fix hard failure when handling missing attribute in a class with duplicated bases

  Closes #4687

• Fix false-positive consider-using-with (R1732) if a ternary conditional is used together with with

  Closes #4676

• Fix false-positive deprecated-module when relative import uses deprecated module name.

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Commits

• 444f654 Bump pylint to 2.9.6, update changelog
• c04f92e Improve Issue forms (#4749)
• e04de25 Update coveralls requirement from ~=3.1 to ~=3.2 (#4747)
• 50b9b53 [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#4752)
• f17b28e Add Github issue forms and densify some templates (#4742)
• a054796 Fix false positive undefined variable in decorator with list comprehension (#...
• 31aa6fd Move back to a dev version following 2.9.5 release
• ec8219e Bump pylint to 2.9.5, update changelog
• dbfde30 [4692 regression] Test won't fail if the real click is installed
• 2e3778e #4692 Add a regression test for inference crash
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