From 04f2366df84b8fa5c58009159963ecf1ed5f6bb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Diego Hurtado <ocelotl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:26:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Remove packaging as a runtime dependency of
 opentelemetry-instrumentation-pika

---
 .changelog/4886.removed                                         | 1 +
 .../opentelemetry-instrumentation-pika/pyproject.toml           | 1 -
 .../src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pika/pika_instrumentor.py | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .changelog/4886.removed

diff --git a/.changelog/4886.removed b/.changelog/4886.removed
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..990f8186c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changelog/4886.removed
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+`opentelemetry-instrumentation-pika`: remove the runtime `packaging` dependency in favor of the internal PEP 440 implementation in `opentelemetry-instrumentation`
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pika/pyproject.toml b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pika/pyproject.toml
index 65f5b1b983..6fbdc0ba69 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pika/pyproject.toml
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pika/pyproject.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ dependencies = [
   "opentelemetry-instrumentation == 0.66b0.dev",
   "opentelemetry-semantic-conventions == 0.66b0.dev",
   "opentelemetry-api ~= 1.5",
-  "packaging >= 20.0",
   "wrapt >= 1.0.0, < 3.0.0",
 ]
 
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pika/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pika/pika_instrumentor.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pika/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pika/pika_instrumentor.py
index 24be559779..9040a75157 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pika/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pika/pika_instrumentor.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pika/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pika/pika_instrumentor.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 
 import pika
 import wrapt
-from packaging import version
 from pika.adapters import BlockingConnection
 from pika.adapters.blocking_connection import (
     BlockingChannel,
@@ -17,6 +16,7 @@
 from pika.connection import Connection
 
 from opentelemetry import trace
+from opentelemetry.instrumentation._packaging import version
 from opentelemetry.instrumentation.instrumentor import BaseInstrumentor
 from opentelemetry.instrumentation.pika import utils
 from opentelemetry.instrumentation.pika.package import _instruments

From 0ec91c38661f4f36a5cce6a6bc3b5849ae433404 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Diego Hurtado <ocelotl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:27:59 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Rename changelog fragment to match PR number

---
 .changelog/{4886.removed => 4890.removed} | 0
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 rename .changelog/{4886.removed => 4890.removed} (100%)

diff --git a/.changelog/4886.removed b/.changelog/4890.removed
similarity index 100%
rename from .changelog/4886.removed
rename to .changelog/4890.removed