Openwrt 24.10 borgbackup is broken because of unsupported msgpack version

[returntoreality]

Borgbackup has a version check for msgpack and will terminate if it is unsupported. The 24.10 repos have a version which is too new (1.0.7) for the borgbackup version in the repo (1.2.4) which only supports msgpack up to version 1.0.5. The newest 1.2 version of borgbackup (1.2.8) would increase the support to msgpack 1.0.8.
This is the error borgbackup reports:

You do not have a supported version of the msgpack python package installed. Terminating.
This should never happen as specific, supported versions are required by our setup.py.
Do not contact borgbackup support about this.

Probably updating the 24.10 repo to the latest borgbackup 1.2 version would be the best solution.

[thatguyatgithub]

Just seconding this report as well.

This was fixed last year at 1.4.0, here mentioned as well borgbackup/borg#8144

[returntoreality]

1.4.0 would also work, but would be a non-patch release update. I don't know how these are handled in openwrt stable releases.