diff --git a/distros/lyrical/conda_build_config.yaml b/distros/lyrical/conda_build_config.yaml
index 459bbb633..bfc382990 100644
--- a/distros/lyrical/conda_build_config.yaml
+++ b/distros/lyrical/conda_build_config.yaml
@@ -1001,9 +1001,11 @@ python:
   # conda-forge supports only 3.14+ for win-arm64 and linux-riscv64
   # part of a zip_keys: python, is_python_min
   - 3.14.* *_cp314
+  - 3.12.* *_cpython
 python_impl:
   - cpython
 
+  # ros-lyrical specific (distros/lyrical/distro.yaml)
 python_min:
   # minimum supported python version per CFEP-25
   # bump to next minor version when we drop python versions
@@ -1014,6 +1016,7 @@ is_freethreading:
 is_python_min:
   # part of a zip_keys: python, is_python_min
   - false
+  - false
 is_abi3:
   - true
 pytorch:
diff --git a/distros/lyrical/distro.yaml b/distros/lyrical/distro.yaml
index ee108bd6c..ce31e3f74 100644
--- a/distros/lyrical/distro.yaml
+++ b/distros/lyrical/distro.yaml
@@ -6,3 +6,8 @@ channel_name: robostack-lyrical
 upload_to: [prefix, anaconda]
 read_from: prefix
 rosdistro_sync: lyrical/2026-10-05
+pinning_overrides:
+  # build every python package for 3.14 (the shared default) and 3.12;
+  # is_python_min is zipped with python, so it needs one entry per version
+  python: [3.14.* *_cp314, 3.12.* *_cpython]
+  is_python_min: [false, false]