We satisfy the ninja dependency directly by the developer/build/ninja package and not via the ninja-python-distributions (https://pypi.org/project/ninja). --- dbus-python-1.3.2/pyproject.toml.orig +++ dbus-python-1.3.2/pyproject.toml @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ requires = [ 'meson-python>=0.8.1', 'meson>=0.60.0', - 'ninja', 'patchelf', 'setuptools', 'wheel',