From c33ece86cba0bedbaa5b6ad7de85c7794eea57a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Sergey E. Koposov" <skoposov@ed.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 22:30:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix the way how versions are checked

---
 py/rvspecfit/desi/desi_fit.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/py/rvspecfit/desi/desi_fit.py b/py/rvspecfit/desi/desi_fit.py
index db77adf..2b3a302 100644
--- a/py/rvspecfit/desi/desi_fit.py
+++ b/py/rvspecfit/desi/desi_fit.py
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@
 import traceback  # noqa: E402
 import functools  # noqa: E402
 import operator  # noqa: E402
-import importlib  # noqa: E402
 import logging  # noqa: E402
 import enum  # noqa: E402
+from importlib.metadata import version as get_package_version  # noqa: E402
 import concurrent.futures  # noqa: E402
 import astropy.table as atpy  # noqa: E402
 import astropy.io.fits as pyfits  # noqa: E402
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ def get_dep_versions():
     ret = {}
     for curp in DEPEND_PACKAGES:
         try:
-            ret[curp] = importlib.import_module(curp).__version__
+            ret[curp] = get_package_version(curp)
         except ImportError:  # this should not really be happening
             # but can, and is not worth bailing out
             pass