Python Package Registry will not accept packages with PKG-INFO Metadata version 2.4

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When using the GitLab Python Package Index to publish development builds of a python package, the latest version of the Metadata format causes GitLab to announce that the version is unsupported [2]:

Using docker image sha256:d8d6e2d90e8f8f26e31c79d18e1d033e10ef0ba8e783054832a8b47bc132b289 for registry.gitlab.com/qemu-project/python-qemu-qmp/python:latest with digest registry.gitlab.com/qemu-project/python-qemu-qmp/python@sha256:382eb316a48c55d074244e237dd10d77e7c03651ea922c7c2da570c6321b6809 ...
$ TWINE_PASSWORD=${CI_JOB_TOKEN} TWINE_USERNAME=gitlab-ci-token python3 -m twine upload --verbose --repository-url "${CI_API_V4_URL}/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/packages/pypi" dist/*
Uploading distributions to 
https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/35575318/packages/pypi
ERROR    InvalidDistribution: Metadata is missing required fields: Name,        
         Version.                                                               
         Make sure the distribution includes the files where those fields are   
         specified, and is using a supported Metadata-Version: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2,   
         2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3.                                                    
Cleaning up project directory and file based variables 00:01
ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

The setuptools package has produced metadata in this format since v77; see PEP 639: https://peps.python.org/pep-0639/#deprecate-license-field

[1] yml definition: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/python-qemu-qmp/-/blob/main/.gitlab-ci.d/publish.yml?ref_type=heads#L25 [2] job failure log: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/python-qemu-qmp/-/jobs/9916549007