Consistent python version checks and troubleshooting

[potiuk]

Follow up after #42766 and #42936.

• We do not have to check for minimum Python version for Python 3.9 any more (as we do not support 3.8 any more)
• While Python 3.12 is not yet fully supported by Apache Beam, we should still not allow it for releasing providers, but all other commands should support Python 3.12
• When you had pre-commit installed with Python 3.8 before, various errors might appear when running pre-commit. Troubleshooting was added quoting the errors and explaining what to do.

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[ashb]

I still don't understand how preparing the sdist release on Python 3.12 causes any problem? Surely the Py 3.12 issue is a runtime/install time problem?

For instance: I removed the 3.12 check and ran:

breeze release-management prepare-provider-packages --package-format sdist apache.beam --skip-tag-check

Which generated this file apache_airflow_providers_apache_beam-5.8.1.tar.gz

If you compare the files in that to https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/airflow/providers/apache_airflow_providers_apache_beam-5.8.1.tar.gz it is 100% identical

To repro:

curl -fSsL https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/airflow/providers/apache_airflow_providers_apache_beam-5.8.1.tar.gz | tar -xOz - | shasum;
curl -fSsL https://github.com/user-attachments/files/17350787/apache_airflow_providers_apache_beam-5.8.1.tar.gz | tar -xOz - | shasum;

Which prints

c160bea03fb1262af731ba25fb3c1d9a2a8a954c  -
c160bea03fb1262af731ba25fb3c1d9a2a8a954c  -

tar -O says print all the content to stdout -- i.e. these two tar files contain identical content.

[potiuk]

Good that you checked. The sdist package to wheel conversion did not work before with Python3.12.

As explained few times before when you asked -this was the reason for having the exclusion. I have not checked if it works now it could be caused by other packages that failed with 3.12.

Another reason why it might start working -I think - the version of Beam released a week or so ago could have fixed the sdist failure - because they generally fixed some dependencies in latest version released while I was on vacations.

If my hypothesis is right - If you want to see how it failed before you can pin the beam package to the previous version and see the failure.

If you can confirm that it works now - we can remove the limitation.

[ashb]

That def explains why I couldn't see any reason for the check. I'll try with the previous version tomorrow/Monday.