Limit scipy version to avoid errors

Author: adamtheturtle

lint.mk

@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ fix-ruff:
 
 .PHONY: pip-extra-reqs
 pip-extra-reqs:
-	pip-extra-reqs --skip-incompatible --requirements-file=<(pdm export --pyproject) src/
+	# Ignore scipy as it is defined to constrain a version.
+	pip-extra-reqs --ignore-requirement=scipy --skip-incompatible --requirements-file=<(pdm export --pyproject) src/
 
 .PHONY: pip-missing-reqs
 pip-missing-reqs:

pyproject.toml

@@ -313,6 +313,10 @@ dependencies = [
     "pydantic-settings",
     "requests",
     "requests-mock",
+    # We pin to an old version of scipy as brisque does not support newer versions.
+    # `brisque` appears to be unmaintained, so we may need to switch to an
+    # alternative, such as `piq`, which currently does not support Python 3.12.
+    "scipy<1.12.0",
     'tzdata; sys_platform == "win32"',
     "vws-auth-tools",
 ]