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What does "Entity API >= 8.x-1.0-alpha3 module is now a dependency and needs to be installed before running updates" during drush updatedb mean?

I am doing a Drupal 8.6.18 to 8.9.19 update via composer.

After upgrading the packages via composer, I updated the database, which shows a warning:

$ vendor/bin/drush updatedb <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/entity">Entity API >= 8.x-1.0-alpha3</a>  module is now a dependency and needs to be installed before running updates.  (Currently using Media entity Entity API missing)                     [error] Requirements check reports errors. Do you wish to continue? (y/n):

Continuing works, but I am a little scared.

What is the background of this message?

drupal/entity is already at version 1.3.0:

$ composer show drupal/entity [...] versions : * 1.3.0

What is interesting, is that pm:info does not show a version information for the entity module. Is this maybe the reason?

$ vendor/bin/drush pm:info entity  Extension        :  entity                                                                                                                                                                                                               Project          :  Unknown                                                                                                                                                                                                              Type             :  module                                                                                                                                                                                                               Title            :  Entity                                                                                                                                                                                                               Description      :  Provides expanded entity APIs, which will be moved to Drupal core one day.                                                                                                                                           Package          :  Other                                                                                                                                                                                                                PHP              :  7.0.8                                                                                                                                                                                                                Status           :  enabled                                                                                                                                                                                                              Path             :  modules/contrib/entity                                                                                                                                                                                               Schema version   :  8000                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Requires         :  none                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Required by      :  media_entity, media_entity_document, media_entity_embeddable_video, media_entity_image, video_embed_media, foodservice_core, foodservice_globalelement, foodservice_product, foodservice_recipe, foodservice_video   Permissions      :  none                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Configure        :  None

I have already read https://www.drupal.org/project/media_entity/issues/2722073, which comes to the conclusion that the entity module needs to be enabled. But it is in my case.

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