This library provides support for "legacy" Python Packaging functionality removed from https://github.com/pypa/packaging.
This library includes support for the following deprecated/removed APIs:
LegacyVersionRemoved in https://github.com/pypa/packaging/pull/407, this includes a
packaging_legacy.version.parse function that handles legacy versions.
- from packaging.version import parse, LegacyVersion
+ from packaging_legacy.version import parse, LegacyVersion
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Core utilities for legacy Python packages
We found that packaging-legacy demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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