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] 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