And issues was raised (#66984) which is looking for support for ~= operator when using the pip.installed. Salt has incomplete implementation of https://peps.python.org/pep-0440/ and 'Compatible release', and does not support for the Compatible release operator ~=, see https://peps.python.org/pep-0440/#compatible-release.

See comment in original issue, #66984 (comment)

Following internal discussion in the Salt Core Team, it was decided to treat this has a Feature Request rather than a Bug.