Support for importlib-metadata ≥7.0

[paulschreiber]

Description

Currently, opentelemetry-api 1.21.0 depends on importlib-metadata<7.0 and >=6.0.

Please add support for importlib-metadata ≥7.0.

[HennerM]

I am having the same issue. Is there any particular reason openetelemetry-api is not compatible with >=7.0

[BwL1289]

Is there an update on this? Looks like this PR is stale for a few weeks but will be merged soon.

[huy-nguyen26]

Any news for the PR please?

[emdneto]

@open-telemetry/python-approvers Can we close this since #3994 got merged?

[GertBurger]

Version 8.0.0 is the latest btw.