feat: add packaging dependency for improved version handling

Author: Andrew Mitchell

pyproject.toml

@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
     "loguru>=0.7.2",
     "numpy!=1.26",
+    "packaging>=24.2",
     "pandas[excel]>=2.2.2",
     "pandera[io,mypy,pandas]>=0.26.1",
     "plot-likert>=0.5.0",