[lemenkov]

Problem

The Package job's "Dialect resolves from its entry point" step asserts an exact create_connect_args dict. seerdb is unpinned in pyproject.toml (seerdb>=2.5.0), so CI now installs seerdb 3.0, whose presence makes the dialect add 'fetch_lobs': False via feature detection (_DRIVER_HAS_FETCH_LOBS). That extra key breaks the exact match:

AssertionError: {'host': 'h', 'port': 1521, 'user': 'u', 'password': 'p',
                 'autocommit': False, 'fetch_lobs': False, 'service_name': 'XE', 'timeout': 5000}

The job therefore fails deterministically on every PR (and on master — it merged previously only because this job isn't a required gate). Dependabot PRs are collateral: they trip the same broken job, which looks like the bump failing tests when it isn't.

Fix

Pop the optional fetch_lobs key before the exact comparison and assert it separately, so the smoke test passes against both pre-3.0 and 3.0+ drivers — matching the dialect's intentional dual-driver support (it works with or without fetch_lobs).

No driver pin needed; no behavior change to the dialect.

Note

Once this lands on master, the open dependabot PRs need a rebase (@dependabot rebase) to pick up the corrected workflow, after which they should go green.

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