diff --git a/fdroidserver/common.py b/fdroidserver/common.py
index df8d686c..aacbb7bf 100644
--- a/fdroidserver/common.py
+++ b/fdroidserver/common.py
@@ -1007,6 +1007,9 @@ class vcs:
         self.refreshed = False
         self.srclib = None
 
+    def _gettags(self):
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
     def repotype(self):
         return None
 
diff --git a/fdroidserver/deploy.py b/fdroidserver/deploy.py
index 0661bb3a..06509db3 100644
--- a/fdroidserver/deploy.py
+++ b/fdroidserver/deploy.py
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ import shutil
 from . import _
 from . import common
 from . import index
-from . import update
 from .exception import FDroidException
 
 config = None
@@ -524,7 +523,7 @@ def upload_apk_to_android_observatory(path):
 
     apkfilename = os.path.basename(path)
     r = requests.post('https://androidobservatory.org/',
-                      data={'q': update.sha256sum(path), 'searchby': 'hash'},
+                      data={'q': common.sha256sum(path), 'searchby': 'hash'},
                       headers=net.HEADERS, timeout=300)
     if r.status_code == 200:
         # from now on XPath will be used to retrieve the message in the HTML
diff --git a/fdroidserver/metadata.py b/fdroidserver/metadata.py
index 4fba148c..6e5c445b 100644
--- a/fdroidserver/metadata.py
+++ b/fdroidserver/metadata.py
@@ -764,6 +764,8 @@ def parse_metadata(metadatapath):
             try:
                 commit_id = common.get_head_commit_id(git.Repo(build_dir))
                 logging.debug(_('Including metadata from %s@%s') % (metadata_in_repo, commit_id))
+            # See https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/2856 .
+            # pylint: disable-next=no-member
             except git.exc.InvalidGitRepositoryError:
                 logging.debug(_('Including metadata from {path}').format(metadata_in_repo))
             app_in_repo = parse_metadata(metadata_in_repo)
diff --git a/fdroidserver/vmtools.py b/fdroidserver/vmtools.py
index e489ce4b..f367a3a3 100644
--- a/fdroidserver/vmtools.py
+++ b/fdroidserver/vmtools.py
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ class FDroidBuildVm:
 
     def __init__(self, srvdir):
         """Create new server class."""
+        self.provider = None
         self.srvdir = srvdir
         self.srvname = basename(srvdir) + '_default'
         self.vgrntfile = os.path.join(srvdir, 'Vagrantfile')
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d2cb8c55..a3a1dda2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ disable = [
   "no-else-continue",
   "no-else-raise",
   "no-else-return",
-  "no-member",
   "subprocess-run-check",
   "use-dict-literal",
 ]
diff --git a/tests/gradle-release-checksums.py b/tests/gradle-release-checksums.py
index 38784052..f020c0bd 100755
--- a/tests/gradle-release-checksums.py
+++ b/tests/gradle-release-checksums.py
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ if git_repo.is_dirty() and ('gradlew-fdroid' in modified or 'makebuildserver' in
     remote_name = 'fdroid-bot'
     try:
         remote = git_repo.create_remote(remote_name, url)
+    # See https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/2856 .
+    # pylint: disable-next=no-member
     except git.exc.GitCommandError:
         remote = git.remote.Remote(git_repo, remote_name)
         remote.set_url(url)
diff --git a/tests/ndk-release-checksums.py b/tests/ndk-release-checksums.py
index 2f39bc68..b53d2387 100755
--- a/tests/ndk-release-checksums.py
+++ b/tests/ndk-release-checksums.py
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ if git_repo.is_dirty() and 'fdroidserver/common.py' in modified:
     remote_name = 'fdroid-bot'
     try:
         remote = git_repo.create_remote(remote_name, url)
+    # See https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/2856 .
+    # pylint: disable-next=no-member
     except git.exc.GitCommandError:
         remote = git.remote.Remote(git_repo, remote_name)
         remote.set_url(url)