From f6900c14d800df104805c397b88e2e34221f6952 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Glenn Jocher <glenn.jocher@ultralytics.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:42:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Declare packaging runtime dependency

---
 pyproject.toml | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a970f52aa..b18109974 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ requires-python = ">=3.7"
 # Core dependencies needed for CLIP functionality
 dependencies = [
     "ftfy",      # Text preprocessing library for fixing Unicode errors
+    "packaging",  # Version parsing used for PyTorch compatibility checks
     "regex",     # Enhanced regular expression library
     "tqdm",      # Progress bar library for tracking long-running operations
     "torch",     # PyTorch deep learning framework