vcs_versioning: Version management from VCS metadata - Packages and Features

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# vcs_versioning: Version management from VCS metadata

## Description

vcs-versioning extracts and manages project version numbers from version control system (VCS) metadata such as Git tags. It is used by setuptools-scm and other packaging tools to automatically derive the project version without hardcoding it.

## License

MIT

## Upstream Contact

https://pypi.org/project/vcs-versioning/

## Type

standard

## Dependencies

- $(PYTHON)

- packaging: Core utilities for Python packages

- pip: Tool for installing and managing Python packages

## Version Information

package-version.txt:

    1.1.1

## Equivalent System Packages

(none known)

However, these system packages will not be used for building Sage because `spkg-configure.m4` has not been written for this package; see Issue #27330 for more information.