Remove packaging from dependencies (#2866)

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Myachev <[email protected]>

Author: anmyachev

python/setup.py

@@ -758,13 +758,6 @@ def get_git_commit_hash(length=8):
         return ""
 
 
-def get_install_requires():
-    install_requires = [
-        "packaging",  # used by third_party/intel/backend/driver.py
-    ]  # yapf: disable
-    return install_requires
-
-
 setup(
     name=os.environ.get("TRITON_WHEEL_NAME", "triton"),
     version="3.2.0" + get_git_commit_hash() + os.environ.get("TRITON_WHEEL_VERSION_SUFFIX", ""),
@@ -774,7 +767,6 @@ def get_install_requires():
     long_description="",
     packages=get_packages(),
     entry_points=get_entry_points(),
-    install_requires=get_install_requires(),
     package_data=package_data,
     include_package_data=True,
     ext_modules=[CMakeExtension("triton", "triton/_C/")],

third_party/intel/backend/driver.py

@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@
 from triton.runtime.cache import get_cache_manager
 from triton.backends.compiler import GPUTarget
 from triton.backends.driver import DriverBase
-from packaging.version import Version
-from packaging.specifiers import SpecifierSet
 
 
 def find_sycl(include_dir: list[str]) -> tuple[list[str], Optional[str]]:
@@ -51,7 +49,7 @@ def find_sycl(include_dir: list[str]) -> tuple[list[str], Optional[str]]:
     except importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
         raise AssertionError(assertion_message)
 
-    if Version(sycl_rt.get("version", "0.0.0")) in SpecifierSet("<2025.0.0a1"):
+    if sycl_rt.get("version", "0.0.0").startswith("2024"):
         raise AssertionError(assertion_message)
 
     sycl_dir = None