Relax the importlib-metadata pin

[dhirschfeld]

Description

This pin was causing me to have some package resolution errors with pixi. They're easily worked around by applying my own pins locally, but the better solution is for opentelemetry-api to just support the latest importlib-metadata.

Type of change

Update dependencies (relax existing pin)

How Has This Been Tested?

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CI tests still pass

Does This PR Require a Contrib Repo Change?

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• No.

Checklist:

• Followed the style guidelines of this project
• Changelogs have been updated
• Unit tests have been added N/A
• Documentation has been updated N/A

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• ✅ login: herin049 / name: Lukas Hering (1e3d9c9)

[dhirschfeld]

8.8.0 dropped Python 3.9 support:

https://importlib-metadata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html

That should be fine since Python 3.9 has also bee dropped here:

• Drop Python 3.9 support #5076

[dhirschfeld]

I see this is also being discussed in:

• importlib-metadata breaks code #3234 (comment)

[herin049]

Make sure to update uv.lock

[dhirschfeld]

Make sure to update uv.lock

Ah right 👍

I'm happy for anyone else to push that commit so this can be merged, otherwise I can get to that, hopefully tonight.