semantic_version.SpecItem is deprecated

[nden]

semantic_version.Specitem is deprecated in v 2.8 and will be removed in v 3.0. Astropy raises the DeprecationWarning as an error. To work around this semantic_version was limited in setup.py to <=2.6 but the code in asdf.versioning.py needs a replacement of the deprecated object.

[pllim]

Why not get rid of semantic_version and use setuptools_scm?

[jdavies-st]

asdf already uses setuptools_scm. I think this versioning has to do with schema versioning in the ASDF standard.

[pllim]

You mean this?

https://github.com/spacetelescope/asdf/blob/dcccfd0652db9266e74a53abcb83c37e8381304f/asdf/versioning.py#L161-L167

Hmm... That list doesn't seem to correspond to asdf-standard releases. Maybe a minversion would suffice? 🤷‍♀️

[pllim]

Also, maybe you don't need a third-party package to do version string parsing. Then you free yourselves of this issue completely, now and forever.

[nden]

As mentioned in this comment look into using SimpleSpec or BaseSpec.