Using packaging version <22 starts to conflict with other dependencies

[fabianegli]

The world moves on and packaging <22 as defined in the pyproject.toml dependencies starts being incompatible with some of the packages that might be used in concert with galaxy tool util. The reason why it was restricted is that LegacyVersion was dropped in packaging 22 and is used here to parse package versions which are not SemVer versions. However, there might be a path to resolve this issue by using packaging.version.parse instead as already mentioned in

Right ... where possible we should probably use https://packaging.pypa.io/en/latest/version/#packaging.version.parse to construct the version.

IIRC that would allow alpha, beta and similar suffixes to sort lower than the release version.

Originally posted by @mvdbeek in #5408 (comment)

[fabianegli]

Alternatively, You could just distribute the code for LegacyVersion, as it is licensed under MIT as well. For reference: pypa/packaging#530 (comment)

[mvdbeek]

Originally posted by @mvdbeek in #5408 (comment)

we've been doing that for years and of course that doesn't help with LegacyVersion being dropped.

the second suggestion seems fine, can you open a PR ? you'd probably also need to wrap parse_verison

[nsoranzo]

See also #13570 .

[fabianegli]

I am not currently in a position to work on this, if anyone else feels like it, please feel free to have at it.