mariadb-1.1.5 doesn't build from source on Linux: Missing `packaging` dependency

/tmp> python -m venv env

/tmp> source ./env/bin/activate.fish

(env) /tmp> pip install mariadb

Collecting mariadb

  Downloading mariadb-1.1.5.tar.gz (81 kB)

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  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error

  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.

  │ exit code: 1

  ╰─> [8 lines of output]

      Traceback (most recent call last):

        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>

        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>

        File "/tmp/pip-install-e76pgcey/mariadb_d9442f68620f4d98ba2087f53cd310e9/setup.py", line 12, in <module>

          from mariadb_posix import get_config

        File "/tmp/pip-install-e76pgcey/mariadb_d9442f68620f4d98ba2087f53cd310e9/mariadb_posix.py", line 4, in <module>

          from packaging import version

      ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'packaging'

      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.

╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.

hint: See above for details.

[build-system]

requires = [

  "setuptools",

  "packaging",

]