From f53acf2de6cc928501d84b764eb67d9255a89cc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: R I P Skillan <123875500+RIP-Skillan@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:10:41 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Fix for pytorch version check issue

Fix for Pytorch version check issue for adding 'weights_only' argument. Added a more accurate version parser.
---
 whisper/__init__.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/whisper/__init__.py b/whisper/__init__.py
index f284ec0..f7850cd 100644
--- a/whisper/__init__.py
+++ b/whisper/__init__.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from .decoding import DecodingOptions, DecodingResult, decode, detect_language
 from .model import ModelDimensions, Whisper
 from .transcribe import transcribe
 from .version import __version__
+from pkg_resources import packaging
 
 _MODELS = {
     "tiny.en": "https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/d3dd57d32accea0b295c96e26691aa14d8822fac7d9d27d5dc00b4ca2826dd03/tiny.en.pt",
@@ -147,7 +148,7 @@ def load_model(
     with (
         io.BytesIO(checkpoint_file) if in_memory else open(checkpoint_file, "rb")
     ) as fp:
-        kwargs = {"weights_only": True} if torch.__version__ >= "1.13" else {}
+        kwargs = {"weights_only": True} if packaging.version.parse(torch.__version__ ) >= packaging.version.parse("1.13") else {}
         checkpoint = torch.load(fp, map_location=device, **kwargs)
     del checkpoint_file
 

From ea61a1757f18a37ba2f64cf2914eecaae04ed6d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: R I P Skillan <123875500+RIP-Skillan@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 06:57:44 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Added packaging for version parsing

version parsing which could originally be done using pkg_resources is deprecated from python 3.12, therefore requiring packaging to handle version parsing
---
 requirements.txt | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8ee5920..9aea844 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ tqdm
 more-itertools
 tiktoken
 triton>=2.0.0;platform_machine=="x86_64" and sys_platform=="linux" or sys_platform=="linux2"
+packaging

From bf24f74a349445487d53f58cbacc8d17fdb10c38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: R I P Skillan <123875500+RIP-Skillan@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 07:02:09 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Updated Version parsing for torch

Since pkg_resources has been deprecated from python 3.12, we have to use 'packaging' to handle the version parsing instead.
---
 whisper/__init__.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/whisper/__init__.py b/whisper/__init__.py
index f7850cd..cae01b3 100644
--- a/whisper/__init__.py
+++ b/whisper/__init__.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import os
 import urllib
 import warnings
 from typing import List, Optional, Union
+from packaging import version
 
 import torch
 from tqdm import tqdm
@@ -13,7 +14,6 @@ from .decoding import DecodingOptions, DecodingResult, decode, detect_language
 from .model import ModelDimensions, Whisper
 from .transcribe import transcribe
 from .version import __version__
-from pkg_resources import packaging
 
 _MODELS = {
     "tiny.en": "https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/d3dd57d32accea0b295c96e26691aa14d8822fac7d9d27d5dc00b4ca2826dd03/tiny.en.pt",
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ def load_model(
     with (
         io.BytesIO(checkpoint_file) if in_memory else open(checkpoint_file, "rb")
     ) as fp:
-        kwargs = {"weights_only": True} if packaging.version.parse(torch.__version__ ) >= packaging.version.parse("1.13") else {}
+        kwargs = {"weights_only": True} if version.parse(torch.__version__ ) >= version.parse("1.13") else {}
         checkpoint = torch.load(fp, map_location=device, **kwargs)
     del checkpoint_file