f2py in compile mode (i.e. f2py -c) now accepts the --backend meson option. This is the default option for Python 3.12 on-wards. Older versions will still default to --backend distutils.
To support this in realistic use-cases, in compile mode f2py takes a --dep flag one or many times which maps to dependency() calls in the meson backend, and does nothing in the distutils backend.
There are no changes for users of f2py only as a code generator, i.e. without -c.