diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-package.yml b/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
index 7570e26..5cba06b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ jobs:
 
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 2.7]
         os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macos-latest]
diff --git a/msal_extensions/cache_lock.py b/msal_extensions/cache_lock.py
index ebb2601..c6f95e2 100644
--- a/msal_extensions/cache_lock.py
+++ b/msal_extensions/cache_lock.py
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 import errno
 import time
 import logging
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 
 import portalocker
+from packaging.version import Version
 
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def __init__(self, lockfile_path):
         self._lockpath = lockfile_path
         # Support for passing through arguments to the open syscall was added in v1.4.0
         open_kwargs = ({'buffering': 0}
-            if LooseVersion(portalocker.__version__) >= LooseVersion("1.4.0") else {})
+            if Version(portalocker.__version__) >= Version("1.4.0") else {})
         self._lock = portalocker.Lock(
             lockfile_path,
             mode='wb+',
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1500a37..48966ac 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@
         "pathlib2;python_version<'3.0'",
         ## We choose to NOT define a hard dependency on this.
         # "pygobject>=3,<4;platform_system=='Linux'",
+
+        # Packaging package uses YY.N versioning so we have no upperbound to pin.
+        # Neither do we need lowerbound because its `Version` API existed since its first release
+        # https://github.com/pypa/packaging/blame/14.0/packaging/version.py
+        'packaging',
     ],
     tests_require=['pytest'],
 )