fix(deps): relax core runtime dependency pins from exact == to ranges

When litellm migrated from Poetry to uv (PR #24905, v1.83.1), the core
dependency specifications in pyproject.toml changed from Poetry bare-version
strings (e.g. openai = "2.30.0") to PEP 621 exact pins (openai==2.24.0).

Poetry bare-version strings are actually caret ranges (^X.Y.Z == >=X.Y.Z,<X+1),
but PEP 621 == is exact. This means every downstream package that installs
litellm as a library dependency is now forced to downgrade aiohttp, pydantic,
openai, click, and 8 other common packages to exact old versions.

Fix: restore range specifiers for the 12 core runtime dependencies. The
optional extras (proxy, proxy-runtime, etc.) are consumed primarily by
Docker images where exact pins are appropriate and are left unchanged.
The uv.lock file continues to provide exact reproducibility for Docker
builds and CI.

Fixes: #26154

pyproject.toml

@@ -33,8 +33,9 @@ Homepage = "https://litellm.ai"
 Repository = "https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm"
 Documentation = "https://docs.litellm.ai"
 
-# Dependencies pinned from the published `litellm[proxy]==1.83.0` resolution.
-# Docker and CI should prefer `uv.lock` rather than maintaining parallel installers.
+# Optional extras retain exact pins because they are consumed by Docker images
+# where exact reproducibility matters. The core SDK uses ranges so downstream
+# consumers can coexist with other packages without forced downgrades.
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 proxy = [
     "gunicorn==23.0.0",
@@ -223,7 +224,7 @@ build-backend = "uv_build"
 
 [tool.uv]
 default-groups = ["dev"]
-required-version = ">=0.10.9"
+required-version = "==0.10.9"
 exclude-newer = "3 days"
 
 [tool.uv.sources]
@@ -312,3 +313,4 @@ pytest_add_cli_args = [
 [tool.coverage.run]
 source = ["litellm"]
 relative_files = true
+