diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a4fa4f63aa5..83d6edd848d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
     # Disallowing 2.6.0 can be removed when this is fixed https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic/issues/8705
     "pydantic>=1.10,<3,!=2.6.0",  # could be both V1 and V2
     "docker",
+    "packaging",
 ]
 
 jupyter_executor = [