RL8: [ERROR]: 'Version' object has no attribute 'release'

[tjyang]

Recording this error for python3-packaging-16.8-9.el8.noarch on RockyLinux 8

[me@alt01 tmp]$ zabbix-cli
-------------------------
Zabbix-CLI authentication
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# Username[me]: Admin
# Password:

[ERROR]: 'Version' object has no attribute 'release'

[me@alt01 tmp]$

• create own rpm
• installed rpms

  [me@alt01 tmp]$ rpm -qa |egrep "zabbix-cli|python3-requests|python3-packaging"
  zabbix-cli-2.3.2-1.el8.noarch
  python3-packaging-16.8-9.el8.noarch
  python3-requests-2.20.0-3.el8_8.noarch
  [me@alt01 tmp]$

• Google search on the error message

R1: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/issues/605

[pederhan]

I don't know if I have the capacity to maintain the RPM package. It is very limiting to deal with such outdated dependencies - that version of packaging is over 7 years old at this point. Install with pip for now.