Updated pip and packaging versions to work with free-threading packages (#2514)
We had an issue to install jaxlib with bazel when running the following
command (using rules_python v0.39):
```bash
bazel test \
--repo_env=HERMETIC_PYTHON_VERSION=3.13-ft \
--repo_env=JAX_NUM_GENERATED_CASES=$JAX_NUM_GENERATED_CASES \
--repo_env=JAX_ENABLE_X64=$JAX_ENABLE_X64 \
--repo_env=JAX_SKIP_SLOW_TESTS=$JAX_SKIP_SLOW_TESTS \
--repo_env=PYTHON_GIL=$PYTHON_GIL \
--repo_env=TSAN_OPTIONS="halt_on_error=1" \
--//jax:build_jaxlib=false \
--nocache_test_results \
--test_output=all \
//tests:cpu_tests
```
According to @vam-google, this was due to old pip/packaging versions. We
updated them and this helped to make work the whole building/testing
pipeline: https://github.com/jax-ml/jax/pull/24898
So, we would like to upstream the patch:
https://github.com/jax-ml/jax/pull/24898/files#diff-e3dc8d7d2bf5d057f95b86bcff7360b6c99fa1f458882fd112b58da4aceb53e4
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