Skip test for #714 on py3.8 due to lack of geopandas support

Workaround for #714 requires at least geopandas 0.14 but that version is
not available on Python 3.8 (#717)

setup.py

@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@
     "urllib3<2.3.0",  # httpretty doesn't work properly with urllib3>=2.3.0. See #700 and https://github.com/gabrielfalcao/HTTPretty/issues/484
     "netCDF4>=1.7.0",
     "matplotlib",  # TODO: eliminate matplotlib as test dependency
-    "geopandas>0.13.2",
+    # TODO #717 Simplify geopandas constraints when Python 3.8 support is dropped
+    "geopandas>=0.14; python_version>='3.9'",
+    "geopandas",  # Best-effort geopandas dependency for Python 3.8
     "flake8>=5.0.0",
     "time_machine",
     "pyproj>=3.2.0",  # Pyproj is an optional, best-effort runtime dependency

tests/extra/job_management/test_job_management.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import copy
+import datetime
 import json
 import logging
 import re
@@ -7,7 +8,6 @@
 from time import sleep
 from typing import Callable, Union
 from unittest import mock
-import datetime
 
 import dirty_equals
 import geopandas
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 )
 from openeo.rest._testing import OPENEO_BACKEND, DummyBackend, build_capabilities
 from openeo.util import rfc3339
+from openeo.utils.version import ComparableVersion
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
@@ -977,6 +978,10 @@ def test_initialize_from_df_on_exists_skip(self, tmp_path):
         )
         assert set(db.read()["some_number"]) == {1, 2, 3}
 
+    @pytest.mark.skipif(
+        ComparableVersion(geopandas.__version__) < "0.14",
+        reason="This issue has no workaround with geopandas < 0.14 (highest available version on Python 3.8 is 0.13.2)",
+    )
     def test_read_with_crs_column(self, tmp_path):
         """
         Having a column named "crs" can cause obscure error messages when creating a GeoPandas dataframe