[BUG] Cannot use .* with >= in version specifiers

[whitequark]

setuptools version

setuptools===67.1.0

Python version

Python 3.9.2

OS

Debian 11

Additional environment information

No response

Description

Setuptools validation for pyproject.toml dependency specifications is too strict and rejects amaranth-yosys>=0.10.*.

This doesn't match the grammar defined in PEP 508.

You might ask yourself, "isn't this version specification the same as amaranth-yosys>=0.10?" The answer is no, try running both:

• pip install 'amaranth-yosys>=0.10.*'
• pip install 'amaranth-yosys>=0.10'

and comparing the result. Only the former will succeed since all of the amaranth-yosys distributions have a .dev suffix.

Expected behavior

Setuptools accepts amaranth-yosys>=0.10.* in a dependency specification.

How to Reproduce

Put the following in a pyproject.toml file in an empty directory:

[build-system]
requires = ["wheel", "setuptools"]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"

[project]
name = "test-project"
version = "1.0"
dependencies = ["amaranth-yosys>=0.10.*"]

Install it with pip install .

Output

  configuration error: `project.dependencies[{data__dependencies_x}]` must be pep508
  DESCRIPTION:
      Project dependency specification according to PEP 508
  
  GIVEN VALUE:
      "amaranth-yosys>=0.10.*"
  
  OFFENDING RULE: 'format'
  
  DEFINITION:
      {
          "$id": "#/definitions/dependency",
          "title": "Dependency",
          "type": "string",
          "format": "pep508"
      }

[whitequark]

This seems to be an intentional change, see pypa/packaging#645. After some consideration I think I've been misusing .dev-versions all this time and will have to (unfortunately painfully) transition to a different scheme.