From d023d943715f193e78413280e10d101f39501748 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Lord <davidism@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:10:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] set importlib_metadata minimum version

---
 CHANGES.rst | 3 +++
 setup.py    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 1f1d55b2..8214900c 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ Version 2.1.1
 
 Unreleased
 
+-   Set the minimum required version of importlib_metadata to 3.6.0,
+    which is required on Python < 3.10. :issue:`4502`
+
 
 Version 2.1.0
 -------------
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 196f1c10..a28763b5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ setup(
         "Jinja2 >= 3.0",
         "itsdangerous >= 2.0",
         "click >= 8.0",
-        "importlib-metadata; python_version < '3.10'",
+        "importlib-metadata >= 3.6.0; python_version < '3.10'",
     ],
     extras_require={
         "async": ["asgiref >= 3.2"],