diff --git a/.github/workflows/type-checking.yaml b/.github/workflows/type-checking.yaml
index 3c7f7307d2..83713c2bc0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/type-checking.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/type-checking.yaml
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ on:
   pull_request:
     paths:
       - yt/**/*.py
-      - setup.cfg
+      - pyproject.toml
+      - requirements/typecheck.txt
       - .github/workflows/type-checking.yaml
   workflow_dispatch:
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8a562a27a7..08d31233d6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ answer-testing = "yt.utilities.answer_testing.framework:AnswerTesting"
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 # some generic, reusable constraints on optional-deps
-HDF5 = ["h5py>=3.1.0"]
+HDF5 = ["h5py>=3.1.0,!=3.12.0; platform_system=='Windows'"]  # see https://github.com/h5py/h5py/issues/2505
 netCDF4 = ["netCDF4!=1.6.1,>=1.5.3"]  # see https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python/issues/1192
 Fortran = ["f90nml>=1.1"]
 
diff --git a/requirements/typecheck.txt b/requirements/typecheck.txt
index 3edda47449..f116cfe1d5 100644
--- a/requirements/typecheck.txt
+++ b/requirements/typecheck.txt
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ mypy==1.11.2
 types-PyYAML==6.0.12.20240808
 types-chardet==5.0.4.6
 types-requests==2.32.0.20240907
-typing-extensions==4.4.0; python_version < '3.12'
+typing-extensions==4.6.0; python_version < '3.12'
diff --git a/yt/data_objects/construction_data_containers.py b/yt/data_objects/construction_data_containers.py
index a406018925..38deeb9bbc 100644
--- a/yt/data_objects/construction_data_containers.py
+++ b/yt/data_objects/construction_data_containers.py
@@ -1426,7 +1426,7 @@ class YTSmoothedCoveringGrid(YTCoveringGrid):
     filename = None
     _min_level = None
 
-    @wraps(YTCoveringGrid.__init__)
+    @wraps(YTCoveringGrid.__init__)  # type: ignore [misc]
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         ds = kwargs["ds"]
         self._base_dx = (