Invalid specifier: '>=2.7.*'

[serge678]

I can not built the project using Python3.8 and the latest setuptools. When trying to build with setuptools-68.0.0 the error occurs: Invalid specifier: '>=2.7.*'. With setuptools-56.0.0 the build process succeeds.

Reproduction:

$ git clone https://github.com/mapr/maprdb-python-client
$ cd maprdb-python-client
$ git checkout -b 1.1.6 origin/1.1.6
$ python3.8 -m venv venv38
$ source venv38/bin/activate
$ pip intall --upgrade setuptools
(installs setuptools-68.0.0)
$ python setup.py install
...
error in maprdb_python_client setup command: 'python_requires' must be a string containing valid version specifiers; Invalid specifier: '>=2.7.*'
$

Change specifier 2.7.* to 2.7.0 to fix (untested).