Coverage fuzzing is failing because it's installing on an unsupported Python version

[nedbat]

This issue: https://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues/379159150

The logs show:

Step #3 - "compile-libfuzzer-address-x86_64": + pip3 install .
Step #3 - "compile-libfuzzer-address-x86_64": Processing /src/coveragepy
Step #3 - "compile-libfuzzer-address-x86_64":   Installing build dependencies ... �[?25l-� �\� �|� �/� �done
Step #3 - "compile-libfuzzer-address-x86_64": �[?25h  Getting requirements to build wheel ... �[?25l-� �done
Step #3 - "compile-libfuzzer-address-x86_64": �[?25h    Preparing wheel metadata ... �[?25l-� �done
Step #3 - "compile-libfuzzer-address-x86_64": �[31mERROR: Package 'coverage-7.6.6a0.dev1' requires a different Python: 3.8.3 not in '>=3.9'�[0m
Step #3 - "compile-libfuzzer-address-x86_64": �[33mWARNING: You are using pip version 19.2.3, however version 24.3.1 is available.
Step #3 - "compile-libfuzzer-address-x86_64": You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.�[0m
Step #3 - "compile-libfuzzer-address-x86_64": �[?25h********************************************************************************
Step #3 - "compile-libfuzzer-address-x86_64": Failed to build.

Since coverage.py 7.6.2 (2024-10-09), Python 3.9 is the minimum version of Python needed.

[DaveLak]

Same for Dulwich and several other projects.

#12027 appears to have gained some traction again so hopefully it will get merged and resolve these failures soon.

[DaveLak]

#12027 was merged 🙂