CI installation fails due to old versioneer / python 3.12?

[w3168]

The CI installation failed immediately when installing.

The error message is

Obtaining file:///__w/thwaites/thwaites
Preparing metadata (setup.py): started
Preparing metadata (setup.py): finished with status 'error'
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [18 lines of output]
/__w/thwaites/thwaites/versioneer.py:421: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s'
LONG_VERSION_PY['git'] = '''
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 2, in
File "", line 34, in
File "/__w/thwaites/thwaites/setup.py", line 12, in
version=versioneer.get_version(),
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/__w/thwaites/thwaites/versioneer.py", line 1480, in get_version
return get_versions()["version"]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/__w/thwaites/thwaites/versioneer.py", line 1412, in get_versions
cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/__w/thwaites/thwaites/versioneer.py", line 342, in get_config_from_root
parser = configparser.SafeConfigParser()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'configparser' has no attribute 'SafeConfigParser'. Did you mean: 'RawConfigParser'?
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

it looks like it might be a python3.12 compatability issue (pydata/pandas-datareader#969 ) as I believe Firedrake has just enabled this as default (firedrakeproject/firedrake#3546)...