Fix dependency_manager: handle PEP 440 ~= compatible release syntax

[vikrantpuppala]

Summary

Fixes a bug in scripts/dependency_manager.py where PEP 440 compatible release syntax (~=) was incorrectly handled, breaking every PR's "Unit Tests (min deps)" job.

What broke

PR #733 ("Bump thrift to fix deprecation warning") changed pyproject.toml:

- thrift = ">=0.16.0,<0.21.0"
+ thrift = "~=0.22.0"

scripts/dependency_manager.py::_extract_versions_from_specifier had a branch for Poetry-style ~ (single tilde) that strips one character. When applied to ~=0.22.0, it left =0.22.0 (with stray =). The downstream _create_flexible_minimum_constraint then produced the invalid constraint:

thrift>==0.22.0,<=0.23.0

pip install rejects this with InvalidRequirement: Expected end or semicolon, failing every PR's min-deps install step.

Fix

Add an explicit branch for ~= that strips both characters before extracting the minimum version. The Poetry-style single ~ branch is preserved for backward compatibility.

elif spec_set_str.startswith('~='):
    # PEP 440 compatible release: ~=1.2.3 means >=1.2.3, <1.3.0
    min_version = spec_set_str[2:]  # Remove ~=
    return min_version, None

How #733 got merged

PR #733 was merged with no CI checks reported on the branch — branch protection allowed the merge to bypass the unit test workflows that would have caught this. Worth investigating that separately.

Test plan

• Generated min requirements locally before fix → thrift>==0.22.0,<=0.23.0 (invalid)
• Generated min requirements locally after fix → thrift>=0.22.0,<0.23.0 (valid)
• Verify CI's Unit Tests (min deps) jobs pass on this PR

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