From 102f95e8340be98e5579422e80fb643aeb98949a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joris Van den Bossche <jorisvandenbossche@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 08:49:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] BUG: avoid relying on external packaging package in
 interchange protocol

---
 pandas/core/interchange/buffer.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/interchange/buffer.py b/pandas/core/interchange/buffer.py
index 1d24efc263ca0..0f62dd00a0f41 100644
--- a/pandas/core/interchange/buffer.py
+++ b/pandas/core/interchange/buffer.py
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import numpy as np
-from packaging import version
 
 from pandas.core.interchange.dataframe_protocol import (
     Buffer,
     DlpackDeviceType,
 )
+from pandas.util.version import Version
 
-_NUMPY_HAS_DLPACK = version.parse(np.__version__) >= version.parse("1.22.0")
+_NUMPY_HAS_DLPACK = Version(np.__version__) >= Version("1.22.0")
 
 
 class PandasBuffer(Buffer):