From 5eb594b18f366e3c8e8547da05aab2319819202d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Isuru Fernando <isuruf@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:01:05 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #60089: BLD: relax meson/meson-python
 requirements

---
 pyproject.toml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6cf6caec79c27..9f2c7c0c56295 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # Minimum requirements for the build system to execute.
 # See https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/12940 for the AIX issue.
 requires = [
-    "meson-python==0.13.1",
-    "meson==1.2.1",
+    "meson-python>=0.13.1",
+    "meson>=1.2.1,<2",
     "wheel",
     "Cython~=3.0.5",  # Note: sync with setup.py, environment.yml and asv.conf.json
     # Force numpy higher than 2.0, so that built wheels are compatible